Today, Romeo would send Juliet an e-mail (a text is too short) saying when and how they are getting married. You are Romeo. Write the e-mail.

juliet, i have loved you from the day i saw you. you are a angel sent from the

hevans, You are my every thing, if the world would come down on you i would hold it up for you, my dear juliet will you marry me?

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.