Here is a long and silent street.

Question

Here is a long and silent street.

I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise, and I walk blind,
my feet

trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves.

Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves:
if I slow down, he slows;

if I run, he runs

I turn: nobody.

Everything dark and doorless,

only my steps aware of me,

I turning and turning among these corners

which lead forever to the street

where nobody waits for, nobody follows me,

where I pursue a man who stumbles

and rises and says when he sees me: nobody.

In at least three sentences, answer the following question.
What senses are called upon to make the experience concrete? Provide specific examples (quote) to support your response.

Answer 1

The senses of touch and hearing are called upon to make the experience concrete. In the line "I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall and rise, and I walk blind, my feet trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves," the sense of touch is invoked through the act of stumbling on stones and stepping on dry leaves. In addition, the sense of hearing is engaged through the repetition of the word "trampling" and the mention of "stones and leaves" being trampled.