Question

Read the excerpt from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night."

Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Which phrase from the excerpt best indicates that the narrator is lost in thought?

Answer 1

c

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

When the narrator mentions that "Whispering lunar incantations/ Dissolve the floors of memory/ and all its clear relations,/ Its divisions and precisions", we can deduce that he is lost in thought, because some key words indicate so. The floor of his memory and its divisions and precisions are all dissolved by the incantations, meaning they are no more, they disappeared. But, as he continues, a single phrase "Midnight shakes the memory" confirms more clearly the narrator is lost in thought.