An exceprt from a poem: it refers to the ship like a phantom where is passes by. The line means the ship passes by like a prison bar, it was like a wall where it prevents the light of the moon to reach the prisoner.
The mast looks like it imprisons the moon, like the British imprison the colonists.
Explanation:
According to a different source, these are the options that come qith this question:
The British ship is a phantom, like the moon, that cannot be imprisoned.
The night is a prison to everyone, the British, the colonists, and even the ship.
The mast looks like it imprisons the moon, like the British imprison the colonists.
The Somerset is sailing away from the bay, fighting for its freedom.
This refers to the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In this poem, the author describes the famous ride of Paul Revere, where he managed to warn the colonists of the fact that the British were coming. When the author describes how the mast of the British ship imprisons the moon, this is intended to be a symbol of how the colonists are also imprisoned by the British.
