What does the simile “And move like mastodons/Arising from lethargic sleep.” Lines 5 & 6 suggest about the black ships? a. that the poem’s setting is in the harbor/docks

b. the ships look as if they are elephants.

c. that the ships are small and minute.

d. that the ships are always sleepy.

DOCKS by Carl Sandburg

Strolling along
By the teeming docks,
I watch the ships put out. 3
Black ships that heave and lunge
And move like mastodons*
Arising from lethargic sleep. 6

The fathomed harbor
Calls them not nor dares
Them to a strain of action, 9
But outward, on and outward,
Sounding low-reverberating calls,
Shaggy in the half-lit distance,
They pass the pointed headland, 12
View the wide, far-lifting wilderness
And leap with cumulative speed
To test the challenge of the sea. 15

Plunging,
Doggedly onward plunging,
Into salt and mist and foam and sun. 18

*mastodons: prehistoric relatives of today's elephants

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man