'He sat down on a box. he took out letter he had received from Joseph the other Friday and read it again. Then he put it back. A tear, a single tear, ran down his face. he rubbed it off, rather impatiently. he poured water, cold water from a cup, into one hand and washed his face.
He was suddenly very lucid, calm inside'.
What makes this scene taken from a novel very real to the reader is the writer's use of

'Folk all fade. And whither.
As i wait alone where the fair was?
Into the clammy and numbing night fog
Whence they entered hither
Soon one more goes thither!
In these lines, 'the clammy and numbing night fog' (line3) refers to

'Dead leaves blew into the room.
And alighted upon my bed.
Ans a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed'
The mood registered in these lines is

So fair fancy few would weave
In these years!
The poetic device consciously used here is