In line 5, the “waves” are

Aso big they reach the speaker’s window

Ba metaphor for the fog that carries the images of faces down below up

to the speaker at his window

Cpart of the poem’s bigger conceit that compares the scene below to

an ocean

Dpart of a hypothetical situation thought up by the speaker

Ea hallucination that characterizes the speaker as depressed and

delusional



Passage 3. T. S. Eliot, “Morning at the Window”

Th ey are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,

And along the trampled edges of the street

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids

Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Th e brown waves of fog toss up to me

Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,

And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts

An aimless smile that hovers in the air

And vanishes along the level of the roofs.