Hint
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Answer
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Twisted... (quasi-romantic imagery,
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Twisted branch upon the beach
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Sunless... (Baudelarian symbolism, subversion of Romantic tropes)
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Sunless dry geraniums, chestnuts in the streets
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Beats... (Death Knell imagery, temporality of man)
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Beats like a fatalistic drum
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The... (Synecdoche, bleak portrayal of innocence, emptiness)
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The hand of the child, automatic/ I could see nothing behind that child’s eye
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The... (Unreliable narrator, liminal feeling to modernity, caused by dialectic tone)
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The street lamps sputter and mutter
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Let... (Establishes song-like structure similar to Ezra Pound’s ‘3 cantos’ whom he met in 1914, an ode to Romantic symbolism.)
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Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky
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Like... (Simile, tonal Shift)
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Like a patient etherised upon the table
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One... (enjambment, lack of direction, lack of emotion, alienation from world, loss of selfhood)
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One night stands in cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster shells
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And... (Question, alienation with the world)
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And how should I presume?
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When... (Anadiplosis emphasises the flaneur's descent into Sartrean void, a void devoid of existential meaning)
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When I formulate, sprawling on a pin, when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.
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Till (Caesura indicates the distance of human voice)
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Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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