![]() The sea-time described here may not be our time, but it is nevertheless time ‘from the beginning’, not before the beginning there is no ‘eternal note’, as in the looser language of Matthew Arnold. Measures time, not our time, rung by the unhurried While time is a central theme for the entire work, here the emphasis is on historical and geological time: This is the most American of the four quartets and has a continental scale and range which is found again in poets as diverse as Charles Olson and Jorie Graham. The starfish, the horseshoe crab, the whale’s backbone Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses The sea is the land’s edge also, the granite ![]() ![]() ![]() The river is surely the Mississippi, the river which dominated Eliot’s childhood in St Louis, while the sea is the Atlantic where it meets the coast of Massachusetts: The first section is dominated by two aquatic entities: the river and the sea. The Dry Salvages is the quartet devoted to water. ![]()
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