![]() ![]() Louis, with extended family deeply connected to the Unitarian Church and Washington University. I also learned that Eliot was born in my native St. The sequence itself returns repeatedly to the same ideas, for example, these in “Burnt Norton”: “Or say that the end precedes the beginning,/ And the end and the beginning were always there/ Before the beginning and after the end./ And all is always now.” The poems circle endlessly in and out of philosophies about time and memory, repeating themes and images. The fourth section of each, for example, is a brief lyric interlude that connects to prayer, Mary or the Trinity. ![]() As a student, I learned that each of the four poems-“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages” and “Little Gidding”-has five sections that mirror each other. ![]()
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