How does Kenneth Koch use imagery in Paradiso?

Koch relies on personification (a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are represented with human qualities or form) in the beginning of the poem to describe the "form of reality"—noted later in line 6—by which the speaker has been "disillusioned." In line 3 the image implied is a human being sitting perhaps at a table, with arms folded atop it and his or her head buried within the arms. One can picture the head slowly rising "From [the] arms" and a facial expression that indicates the person "seems to want to talk to you again." Visually personifying reality and disillusionment reflects the speaker's eagerness to connect with what has been eluding him.