The Four Quartets
The Four Quartets
Eliot finds an interesting aspect of time and eternity as displayed in this poem. There are philosophical investigations made in the poem within the twentieth century. The poem highlights the efforts of scientists in the bid to comprehend time (Kramer 10). This begins from Einstein’s explanation of quantum mechanics that enabled artists and scientists to come up with numerous ideologies regarding time. Postmodernists hold the view that the value of timelessness on eternity results to destruction. Modernism offers solutions to postmodernism, through combating the effects of time by the use of an empirical method in reversing aging.
The four quartets may be considered as mystical pieces of religious poems done by Eliot. He makes mediations on time through a mixture of Christian and Hindu imagery through personal, as well as historical occurrences he picks on four structural elements to mark the framework of the poems. The burnt Norton associates with air elements named for a house visited in 1930s while the east Coker is associates with the earth. The name is also taken from a village in England. The dry salvages associates with water. Daily life events are reflected in the poem, little gadding.
Post modernists concur with the view that modernists marked the beginning of a historical occurrence through radical revolutions in literature. Eliot adopted a method of engaging real events into poetry through the changes seen in the direction of time. Postmodernist believe that modernists focused on the present as seen in the work of Eliot. Predictions in Einstein’s simulations indicate that a clock running close to a defined mass would run at a relatively slow rate than clocks placed at higher altitudes where there is less gravity. These discoveries inspired the poetic work of Eliot as he is seen to be fascinated by time through observations and reflections in poetry. A proof of the theories of time is strengthened by the support of artists and
Eliot finds an interesting aspect of time and eternity as displayed in this poem. There are philosophical investigations made in the poem within the twentieth century. The poem highlights the efforts of scientists in the bid to comprehend time (Kramer 10). This begins from Einstein’s explanation of quantum mechanics that enabled artists and scientists to come up with numerous ideologies regarding time. Postmodernists hold the view that the value of timelessness on eternity results to destruction. Modernism offers solutions to postmodernism, through combating the effects of time by the use of an empirical method in reversing aging.
The four quartets may be considered as mystical pieces of religious poems done by Eliot. He makes mediations on time through a mixture of Christian and Hindu imagery through personal, as well as historical occurrences he picks on four structural elements to mark the framework of the poems. The burnt Norton associates with air elements named for a house visited in 1930s while the east Coker is associates with the earth. The name is also taken from a village in England. The dry salvages associates with water. Daily life events are reflected in the poem, little gadding.
Post modernists concur with the view that modernists marked the beginning of a historical occurrence through radical revolutions in literature. Eliot adopted a method of engaging real events into poetry through the changes seen in the direction of time. Postmodernist believe that modernists focused on the present as seen in the work of Eliot. Predictions in Einstein’s simulations indicate that a clock running close to a defined mass would run at a relatively slow rate than clocks placed at higher altitudes where there is less gravity. These discoveries inspired the poetic work of Eliot as he is seen to be fascinated by time through observations and reflections in poetry. A proof of the theories of time is strengthened by the support of artists and
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