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 T.S. Eliot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It consists of four poems, "Burnt Norton," "The Dry Salvages," "East Coker," and "Little Gidding." Each of these runs to several hundred lines total and is broken into five sections.
Although they resist easy characterization, they have many things in common: each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect--theological, historical, physical, and on its relation to the human condition.
After his death, his body was cremated and, according to Eliot's wishes, the ashes taken to St Michael's Church in East Coker, the village from which that Eliot's ancestors emigrated to America.
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 CE Chhaffin Essay
The lines he chose for his epitaph come from the opening of "East Coker." At the top of the oval plaque in the church we read "in my beginning is my end"; at the bottom we read "in my end is my beginning." Between the mottos a more traditional inscription appears:
Eliot had visited East Coker in 1937 but did not publish EC until Easter of 1940, which means, like TDS and LG, it was completed during the blitz of WWII, when Eliot served as a fire warden, an experience he uses to good advantage in LG.
Lastly and most importantly, like the next two poems and unlike BN, it was written during war and the specter of war: Eliot visited East Coker in 1937 but did not publish EC until 1940, when the war was underway.
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 DAMPIER, WILLIAM (1652... - Online Information article about DAMPIER, WILLIAM (1652...
bad success " on the Mexican coast, to run across the Pacific and return by the East Indies.
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