There was a fog, a really dense fog on top of the old and distraught cemetery. It looked like an old town that was destroyed and hadn’t been around for centuries. That pillar was the last remaining of that town. The trees are accompanied by each other. There dullness and denseness complemented the color of the sky. It looked like an old haunted town. That was my reaction after looking at it for the first time. The second time I saw it from a completely new and different perspective. It looked like an old church with its own cemetery, that was completely destroyed. It was dark and scary, and frankly I was scared and uncomfortable. But I saw it much deeper than that. This picture was depicting religion, and the old way of thinking in relation to the enlightenment. The enlightenment was a time of thinking and challenging old outdated thoughts that have been followed for centuries. The enlightenment totally changed the way people thought about and practiced religion. I believe that the message David Friedrich is trying to send is that, during the enlightenment religion is not what it used to be. I believe he is comparing the picture to religion. He is saying that religion is old and outdated, in the time of the enlightenment. No more did people just follow and do, they thought for themselves. I ultimately think that this picture is a metaphor for religion during the time of the enlightenment.