How do you understand the following quote: we are a movement of plain people, very weak in the manner and culture, intellectual support, and trained leadership. we are demanding, and we expect to win, a return of power into the hands of the everyday, not highly cultured, not overly intellectualized, but entirely unspoiled and not be-americanized, average citizen of the old stock. our members and leaders are all of this class - the opposition of the intellectuals and liberals who held the leadership, betrayed americanism, and from whom we expect to wrest control, is almost automatic.

This is a political quote expressing conflict between the masses.

Explanation:

"A movement of plain people" - everyday citizens with something to say, yet we say it in many different ways.  We demand a need for leadership and want control, so fighting for what we want is a must no matter how uncivilized the fight may be.  This has nothing to do with intelligence because we all want control and think that we know best.

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.

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