1. Acceptance in T.S.Eliot
... " is earth, "The Dry Salvages" water, "Little Gidding" fire, and "Burnt Norton" air, the world of thoughts, words, philosophy and poetry. The Quartets taken together, then, embody a journey from the ignorance of time to an awakening in eternity. "Burnt Norton" is the most explicitly concerned with time as an abstract principle. The first section combines a hypothesis on time, that the past and the future are always contained in the present, with a description of a rose garden where ... be unfavorably compared. Yet the garden is also a part of the ruined estate from which this quartet tak...
- Word Count: 2598
- Approx Pages: 10
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School