four quartets

The central theme is the union of the flux of time with the stillness of eternity (grover, 253)

Burnt Norton
Rose Garden--air--vision
How do you find the timelessness inside of time?
the first (garden)world is Eden, innocence
freezing time



Section 2
garlic/sapphires organic
stars, dancing, not as much movement, suspension, zen state, life within death as opposed to death in life as in Hollow Men, moment of incarnation, epiphany as personal awareness of the moment of suspension, release from desire, ends in the rose garden

Section 3
distraction, disaffection, descent
not soul-purifying darkness however but a negative suspension, negation of imagery, the nothing


Read east coker for next week
East Coker--earth--first attempt to reclaim/answer the vision

section2 seasons and stars
stars, dancers/dancing
different times in the cycle

section 3
dark, vacant
church/christ in east coker, place where Eliot's remains are interred,





Dry Salvages--water--going down into the darkness for the transformation


Little Gidding--fire--short; the Transformation that leads to communication with divine reality