Both Uses of
evoke
in
Black Like Me
- I could not shake the almost desperate sadness all this evoked, and I marveled that sounds could so degrade the spirit.†
*evoked = called forth or caused
- These moments of night when the swamp and darkness surrounded them evoked an immense loneliness, a dread, a sense of exile from the rest of humanity.†
Definition:
to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind