Question

What do the vials likely symbolize in these lines?


art


sincerity


artificiality


ugliness


Done



The Waste Land

by T. S. Eliot (excerpt)

In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.

Answer 1

I would say B or C :)