Episode 122: The Dry Salvages

About this episode

In this episode, Mary Giudice discusses 'The Dry Salvages' by T.S. Eliot with guest David Miller, exploring themes of the ocean and personal reflection.

I offer you "The Dry Salvages" by T.S. Eliot. This is deep ocean, dear listeners! Come on in. The best part of creating this series was sitting down with others whose lives have been amended by going into that deep. Joining me at the mic this time is the convivial and keen-minded David Miller. Enjoy! The bitter apple and the bite in the apple. And the ragged rock in the restless waters, Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, In navigable weather it is always a seamark To lay a course by: but in the sombre season Or the sudden fury, it is what it always was.

People in this episode

Host: Mary Giudice

Guest: David Miller

Topics covered

• poetry
• T.S. Eliot
• ocean
• literature
• collaboration

Keywords

• T.S. Eliot
• The Dry Salvages
• poetry analysis
• ocean themes
• literary discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Dry Salvages

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