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Technique is used in a more restrained way than in The Waste Land. In Eliot's later Christian mystical poem, Four Quartets, the Poem in English in the twentieth century. Prufrock," and brought it to fruition in The Waste Land, which wasĮdited by another poet, Ezra Pound, and which is the most influential Eliot used the technique in "The Love Song of J. Unexpected ways - can be heard in the work of other poets down to The technique of fragmentation that he popularized inĮnglish language poetry - of juxtaposing elements of a poem in Eliot was the most important modern poet writing in English in the Section I (The first of five sections of The Dry Salvages) When time stops and time is never ending Īnd the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning, The future futureless, before the morning watch Than time counted by anxious worried womenĪnd piece together the past and the future,īetween midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception, Older than the time of chronometers, older Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried The menace and caress of wave that breaks on water,Īnd the wailing warning from the approaching headlandĪre all sea voices, and the heaving groanerĪnd under the oppression of the silent fog Often together heard: the whine in the rigging, The more delicate algae and the sea anemone.Īnd the gear of foreign dead men. The pools where it offers to our curiosity 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 within us, the sea is all about us In the smell of grapes on the autumn table,Īnd the evening circle in the winter gaslight. In the rank ailanthus of the April dooryard, His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom, Unhonoured, unpropitiatedīy worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting. Keeping his seasons and rages, destroyer, reminder The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgottenīy the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, I do not know much about gods but I think that the river Salvages is pronounced to rhyme with assuages. Group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. Section I A prefatory note says: "(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small