 think I should call it 'The Flying Dutchman,'" the name of the legendary ship doomed to sail forever with its crew of dead men, despite the fact that the imagery does not support that specific subject.Ward agrees with other writers about the strong sense of death created by the headless figures, the denuded trees, the horizontal vases, the ruined steps and railing descending into darkness, the spiral object, used to circulate water, but lying useless, and a form suggesting a broken bone in the right foreground.He compares the picture's entrance, leading into the dark void below, to the entrance in "The Glen" ("Andrée's Balloon") It is comparable as well to the area of darkness in the foreground of "Stranded Brig", which Dickinson called "a deep chasm," and the entrance to "Inland Lake", although here not into, but over, a dark void.