Question

I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

The excerpt is an example of what type of narration?
dramatic dialogue
third-person, all knowing
second person, limited
stream of consciousness

Answer 1

stream of consciousness

The passage uses a first-person, associative interior voice—jumping between impressions and images (child’s eye → street eyes → crab)—which is characteristic of stream of consciousness narration.