Essay: The Four Quartets by T. S Elliot

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This essay discusses The Four Quartets by T. S Elliot. The Four Quartets, is an articulation of Eliot’s own conviction and values. It is the method in which he identifies the world. The poem also requires from its reader a level of mindfulness; that is the contemplative state of being both entirely aware of the moment and of being conscious of and attentive to this awareness.

The two selected verses by T. S Elliot are part of The Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages being the third section of the quartet and Little Giddings the last section.  Eliot’s focus in the two poems is the modern problem- the meaninglessness of other things when humanity cannot exist alone. That beyond emptiness and the abyss there is meaning and life, new and eternal. This revelation is not something to be gathered in the strict rules and customs of organized religion. It must be an individual understanding much like what one might have on a pilgrimage or journey. there is a hope that in asking questions and gaining awareness that an individual will come out of the knowledge with some sort of purpose or understanding of their place in the world.

The Four Quartets, is an articulation of Eliot’s own conviction and values. It is the method in which he identifies the world. The poem also requires from its reader a level of mindfulness; that is the contemplative state of being both entirely aware of the moment and of being conscious of and attentive to this awareness.

The Dry Salvages are a group of rocks with a beacon off the north east coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. The title is significant because signals are a steering light to keep ships off the rocks. Symbolically this could be the “light” to guide the soul and keep one from crashing on the rocks. The first stanza begins with Eliot saying he doesn’t

“know much about gods; but I believe that the river is a strong brown god”.

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