The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. These years span World War II and they also follow Eliot's conversion to the Church of England and his naturalization as a British subject. These poems are the work of an older, more mature, spiritually attuned poet, facing a world torn by war and increasingly neglectful of the past. Each of the Four Quartets considers spiritual existence, consciousness, and the relationship of the present to the past. Whereas The Waste Land and others of Eliot's early works take an interest in the effects of time on culture, the Quartets are concerned with the conflict between individual mortality and the endless span of human existence. Accordingly, each quartet focuses on a particular place with its own distinctive significance to human history and takes off from that place to propose a series of ideas about spirituality and meaningful experience. Each quartet separates into five sections. Eliot used these divisions and the transitions between them to try to create an effect he described as similar to the musical form of the sonata. The Quartets, thus, display none of the fragmentation or collage-like qualiti

All time is unredeemable. ( Eliot 13)

As readers can realise, this part, as every part, is full of symbols and these images are part of a universal symbolic vocabulary, as every image of Eliots poetry. The corridor, the rose garden itself, the boksz circle, the pool, the lotus are iconographic images and they form an extremely complex meaning. They are not only symbols, "but symbols that are meant to imply a certain frame of interpretation outside the poem" ( Thompson 99).

Some topics in this essay:
Burnt Norton, Garden Eden, Grecian Urn, Section II, Waste Land, According Thompson, Land Eliot's, Gloucestershire England, Church England, Norton Garlic, burnt norton, rose garden, past future, section ii, earlier poetry, , quartet takes name, takes name, thompson 122, future contained, section iv, eliot's earlier poetry, section burnt norton,