Question

What do the vials likely symbolize in these lines?




art

sincerity

artificiality

ugliness

Answer 1

Is there an attachment?

Answer 2

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 3

Ah. Not sure if I can help with this. :c

Answer 4

its c artificiality