(The Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages—is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Salvages is pronounced to rhyme with assuages. Groaner: a whistling buoy.) I I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a...
In "The Dry Salvages," voice emerges as an even more significant issue than in the previous poems of Four Quartets. In "East Coker," the (main) voice appears on-the-way-to-knowing Beginning the third poem of Four Quartets, the voice claims, however , not to know, the reader's ...
T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" is a renowned series of four poems, each of which reflects on a different aspect of time, spirituality, and the human experience. "The Dry Salvages," the third poem in the series, is a profound and complex work that explores the nature of water, the sea...
Reviewing her autobiography inThe New Yorker,John Updike wrote that Doris Day was one of only four public figures with whom he fell unequivocally in love. (The others were Errol Flynn, Ted Williams, and Harry Truman.) Updike also wrote a poem for our gal. “Her Coy Lover Sings Out” is ...
(T. S. Eliot –‘The Dry Salvages’) The river is a strong brown god. In our lives we all have many rivers to cross. And, so often, we can’t seem to find our way over. Over to the land of milk and honey. Over to the land of lost content. Over to the home we are sure...
or tea leaves," playing cards, pentagrams, handwriting analysis, palm-reading, and the "preconscious terrors" of the dreaming mind in T. S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages" -- may be a bust at prediction bur may turn out to be not only "usual pastimes and drugs" but the means of poetic...
Each subsequent poem repeats the effort in new scenes of self-surrender and acute risk: in East Coker the way down is a submission to surgery; in The Dry Salvages it is to ‘fare forward’ across a battering sea." How do we live in time so as to conquer time? American plot: The ...
It consists of four poems, “Burnt Norton,”“The Dry Salvages,”“East Coker,” and “Little Gidding.” Each of these runs to several hundred lines total and is broken into five sections. Although they resist easy characterization, they have many things in common: each begins with a ...
"Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fireTo aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!”Phillis Wheatley Peters words that inspire
A little like the modern souls spoken of in Eliot's Dry Salvages, we have the reality, but would do anything to miss the meaning. In the past, the world was finitude, the condition of always having to have one's being in a particular here and now, rather than in the world as ...