T.S. Eliots Four Quartets: Visual Notes

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T.S. Eliots Four Quartets Visual Notes

• Elisa Kay Sparks
• Clemson University
• November 2002

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T.S. Eliot and Chart of The Cocktail Party, ca.
1950
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Burnt Norton

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• And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses
• Had the look of flowers that are looked at.
• There they were as our guests, accepted and
  accepting.

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Burnt Norton Lawn

• So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,
• Along the empty alley, into the box circle,

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Burnt Norton Pool

• To look down into the drained pool.
• Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,

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Burnt Norton Pool

• And the pool was filled with water out of
  sunlight,
  
• And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
• The surface glittered out of heart of light,
• And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.
• Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty

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The Road to East CokerPhoto taken by TSE, 1937

• leaving the deep
  laneShuttered with branches, dark in the
  afternoon,Where you lean against a bank while a
  van passes,And the deep lane insists on the
  directionInto the village, in the electric
  heatHypnotised.

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East Coker Church
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The Dry Salvages
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The Dry Salvages

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Little Gidding Chapel
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Little Gidding

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