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?
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis
Midnight shakes the memory
Every street lamp that I pass

Answer 1

"Held in a lunar synthesis."

Reason: "Held" suggests the speaker is being held or absorbed by the moonlit atmosphere—a dreamlike, detached state—indicating he is mentally absorbed or lost in thought.