Based on the epic simile, how should the reader picture thebeam of wood odysseus found in the cave?

The beam of the wood looks like a club or a staff it looks like a large olive tree or like a mast of a ship with twenty pars ( a very big mast)

Explanation:

in dubai we don't have those but i would love to try it lol

i'm ganna take my horse lol jk anyway bow! hello

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.