- East Coker sold almost 12,000 copies during its initial publication. Eliot's response was to claim that its popularity proved that it was a bad poem.
- T.S. Eliot's poem "East Coker" explores the paradoxes of existence and the need for humanity to embrace humility and interconnectedness.
- EAST COKER (No. 2 of 'Four Quartets'). I. In my beginning is my end. ... The poetry does not matter. It was not (to start again) what one had expected.
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- 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 reading the second of the four quartets - East Coker.Music: MahlerText: http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/coker.html.21 bin görüntülemeYayınlandı16 Haz 2011Bulunamadı: 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...
- 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.
- The poem also includes references to human rituals and traditions, such as the bonfire dance, which further emphasize the cyclical nature of life.
