These images show first "Our lady of good voyage", "Les trois sauvages", and "The sea serpent of Gloucester". In my section of the dry salvages, all these images were extremely important. As I said in my presentation, "Our lady of good voyage" prays for the men at sea and the women and children they have left behind. She represents the Virgin Mary and connects to Eliot's latin (I think) reference Figlio del tuo figlia- which I translated (not neccessatily correctly) to Daughter of your son- using Mary and Jesus as an example and connecting then to Dante's Paradiso. Eliot also makes religious references to Jonah and the Whale. The image of the sea monster is very interesting because some once believed that a sea serpent really did exist in the bay off the coast of Cape Ann--- Gloucester, New England. Due to my obsession and love of sea creatures, especially mythical ones this became my favorite part of my section (solely for that reason). I am saddened to see though that when I tell people of this, they are not nearly as excited as I am. Or perhaps they just didn't notice and they wish they could have been the one to make the connection to the sea monster. Yup, that's it :)
I have French History class now en Francais but I will continue with more in depth notes from my presentation after!
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