If we just accept drifting upon the sea, then we will end up broken upon rocks. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. During the time, he moved around often and spent his time writing mostly lectures or tiny poems. Geoffrey Faber joined in and then the poem was soon finished. The images are similar to the Odyssey but represent internal aspects. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on Great Britain, an event that threatened him while giving lectures in the area. [5] It begins with images of the sea, water, and of Eliot's past; this water later becomes a metaphor for life and how humans act.

After Hayward received the draft, the two began corresponding about corrections and alterations to the poem. Les Dry Salvages est le troisième poème des Quatre Quatuors de T. S. Eliot. However, he was able to find time to work on the third poem that would become part of the Four Quartets:[1] Eliot envisioned that Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and a fourth, yet uncreated poem would be united in a set. [15] There are also many references to events and places that Eliot knew as a child.

[19] F. B. Pinion believed that "'The Dry Salvages' is a complicated, uneven, and rather prosy poem, in which Eliot continues to say the same thing, with some progression, mainly in maritime imagery".

Eliot utilise les images du péché originel et de la chute d'Adam quand il parle du passé, et souligne que de tels événements, même lorsqu'ils sont oubliés, peuvent néanmoins affecter l'humanité. [8], The central image of The Dry Salvages is water and the sea.

It is Mary who will guide the metaphorical sailors to their proper harbour. It was published in the February 1941 issue of the New English Weekly. [10], Eliot invokes images of original sin and Adam's fall when talking about the past and points out that such events can be forgotten but can still affect mankind. En termes d'allusions littéraires, Eliot reprend les paroles de Krishna et Arjuna de la Bhagavad-Gita sur le fait d'agir selon la volonté divine. The English word games are: Si un individu suivait les paroles de Krishna, il serait capable de se libérer des limitations de temps. During the time, he moved around often and spent his time writing mostly lectures or tiny poems. The Dry Salvages is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, marking the beginning of the point when the series was consciously being shaped as a set of four poems. [13] While connecting back to his earlier works, Eliot also connects back to his family's past; the "Dry Salvages" was part of the landscape his ancestor Andrew Eliott travelled to in 1669. The third of the four poems in The Four Quartets, it was written in strong-stress “native” metre and divided into five sections.