Read the excerpt from "rhapsody on a windy night." and answer the following question below

so the hand of a child, automatic,
slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
i could see nothing behind that child’s eye.
i have seen eyes in the street
trying to peer through lighted shutters

what theme is reflected in this excerpt?
a. city life can be alienating and lonely.
b. it is impossible to be left alone in the city.
c. city life offers many cultural experiences.
d. young people especially enjoy living in a city.

The correct answer is:

A. City life can be alienating and lonely.

The poem itself is a representation of the social isolation and the decline of the modernist age.

"The hand of the child, automatic, slipped out and pocketed a toy" shows that, as a result of the circumstances, the child is no longer innocent and is forced to survive. The traditional romantic idea of a pure and innocent child is subverted to a thieving child.

"I could see nothing behind that child's eye" shows that his eyes are isolated from the world, meaning that child is separated from the circumstances with the shutters.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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