... Its divisions and precisions". The metaphor of "dissolve[ing]...floors" suggests that memory was a platform, which is being wiped away - the man is left floating in space. The lines Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum have a number of possible implications. One possibility is that the passing lamps remind the man of the passing time, and that soon he will be home, and forced out of the "lunar synthesis". This interpretation is supported by the references to the time at the beginning of each stanza. The lines "Half-past one...Half-past two...Half-past three", are like the beating of a drum, and a fatalistic one in that the progress of time is inexorable. Alternatively, the lines could be emphasising the fear and fatalism inherent in the visions revealed by the street-lamps. For the visions do carry an element of fear, and though, as we shall see, yearnings are expressed, fate seems set ...

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