Question

What is the influence of symbolism in these lines from Moby-wingspan by Herman Melville?


Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses' ears, swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an old doorway. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little like a gallows.




It creates a sense of foreboding.




It suggests inhumanity.




It emphasizes barbarism.




It emphasizes imagination.

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