How does Leonard Cohen use imagery in Beautiful Losers?

Examples of Imagery:

"I was outside in the cold ordinary word, F. had led me here by many compassionate tricks, a gasp of praise of existence blasted my chest and unfolded my lungs like a newspaper in the wind."

"Now what is it about this silence we are so desperate to clear in the wilderness? Have we labored, plowed, muzzled, fenced so that we might hear a Voice? Fat chance. The Voice comes out of the whirlwind, and long ago we hushed the whirlwind ... Some men, some of the time have remembered. Was I one?"