Reply #87: I think I see the meaning. [View All]

[troubleinwinter]

The 'mast' of the boat appears to contain images or symbols of death (evil, danger).

Nobody in the boat (clergy, religious people, people of means... well dressed) is paying any attention to the problem of the mast under which they are traveling.

Nor are the people in the boat paying any attention to the poor, hungry, thirsting, suffering people in the sea.

There is ONE man who seems to be seeing the danger in the tree. He looks like he intends to cut it off. (he must be a democrat).