- Coker Court and the parish church in East Coker, Somerset. East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.
- It is the second of the four poems in The Four Quartets. Like the other three poems, “East Coker” was written in strong-stress metre and organized into five sections.
- T.S. Eliot's poem "East Coker" explores the paradoxes of existence and the need for humanity to embrace humility and interconnectedness.
- The poem East Coker, though, is a contemplation of the passage of time, felt primarily by an individual who is halfway through life.
- Start with that title: as with the previous poem, ‘Burnt Norton’, the small Somerset village of East Coker is a place that Eliot had visited shortly before writing the poem.
- from East Coker T.S. Eliot. So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres Trying to...
- The poem also includes references to human rituals and traditions, such as the bonfire dance, which further emphasize the cyclical nature of life.
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- Back to Poems Page. Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot. ... The poetry does not matter. It was not (to start again) what one had expected.
- Each of the Four Quartets emphasizes one of the traditional four elements, and the opening section of “East Coker” emphasizes the element of earth.
