The Elements
When he first sets sail, they "got under way with a mere breath of wind, and for many days stood along the eastern coast of Java, without any other incident to beguile the monotony of our course" (...
The Whirlpool
Sure, we could have included the whirlpool in our symbol analysis of "The Elements," but we thought it deserved to hog the spotlight for a bit. That's because at the end of the story the whirlpool...
The Black Ship
Ah, the mysterious Black Pearl. Oops. We mean unnamed black ship. She's old—very old, conjuring in our narrator "an unaccountable memory of old foreign chronicles and ages long ago" (16). It may...