The Dry Salvages

1 ANSWERS

1. GiGi
   

   The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and marks the beginning of when the series was consciously being formed as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain while Eliot was lecturing in Great Britain. The title comes from the name of a rock formation near a town Eliot spent time at as a child, which reflects Eliot's references to his own past throughout the poem.
   
   The poem discusses the nature of time and what mankind's place is within time. Life is described metaphorically as travelling in a boat and mankind's fixation on science and future gain keep the travellers from reaching their destination. Within the poem, Eliot invokes the image of Krishna to emphasis the need to follow the divine will instead of seeking personal gain.

   Report (0) (0)  |   12 years, 8 month(s) ago