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divine will instead of worrying about what their actions will bring. If an individual were to follow
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The poem is described as a poem of water and hope. 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. This transitions into an image of a ringing bell and a discussion on time and prayer. Images of men drowning dominate the
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when talking about the past and points out that such events can be forgotten but can still affect mankind. Eliot brings in the image of
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is the least satisfactory of the sequence, though at the same time it contains some of its best lines. The opening lines are poor, in a weakly sub-Whitmanesque fashion. Yet the writing suddenly picks up at the words, 'The river is within us,' and from there to the end of the section we have a
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Krishna stating that the divine will, and not future benefits or rewards, matters. The fourth section is a prayer to the
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dated 4 September 1941 stated that there was a "note of quiescence, even of bleak resignation" in the poem and that it "lost that spice of wit which was woven into the logic of the earlier poems". Later, Bernard
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magnificently sustained sequence". 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".
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and his personal pursuit of the divine. There are also many references to events and places that Eliot knew as a child. In terms of literary allusions, Eliot brings in
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on acting according to the divine will along with allusions to
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