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Rundown, Interpretation: The speaker welcomes the audience to stroll with him into the avenues on a night that takes after a patient, anesthetized with ether, lying on the table of a healing facility working room. The symbolism proposes that the night is inert and sluggish. The speaker and the audience will stroll through desolate lanes—the business day has finished—past shabby lodgings and eateries with sawdust on the floors. The shabby foundations will help the speaker to remember his own weaknesses, their pictures staying in his psyche as he strolls on. They will then goad the audience to get some information about the speaker's life—maybe why he visits these undesirable frequents, which are images of his life, and why he has not acted to better himself or to take a