Read this Herman Melville excerpt from "Introduction to Dark Romanticism American Gothian
Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle
thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty
leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the
masculine sea.
What Dark Romantic theme is reflected in the excerpt?