The Signs No Longer Signify the World Is Forgotten

In herman mel s moby dick, we see midway through the novel that a dark yard is bed like a grave yawning at judgment day in some old apocalyptic painting. This feels like a reverse cphrasis, or a sort of ironic anti phrasis. What's ephrasis? Ecphrasis is when the writer tries to convey another art form with their words. I don't know if we would call the road a sublime novel. But there is a grandeur to the descriptions the infinite landscape as part of the american sublime. The desire is, if only we could return to the world in which visions of hell were fabrications. That's an unnerving