Four Quartets Themes

If you're going to find some way out of the pain of modern existence, humility will have to be your starting point. The farther along you get in "Four Quartets," the more it seems that Eliot is con...

For T. S. Eliot, it's totally necessary for modern individuals to stop focusing so much on all of their personal goals and ambitions. (Good, we were tired of working so hard, anyway.) In this sense...

"Four Quartets" is a very personal poem for our guy Eliot. It's maybe even his most personal poem, since it draws on a lot of stuff from his past. On top of that, though, a major theme that's explo...

There might be no word that the speaker repeats in "Four Quartets" more than "time." One of the reasons he's so repetitive about it is because he wants us to look at time in a completely new way. (...

In "Four Quartets," questions of time, humility, man and the natural world, and memory are all ultimately connected to questions of life, consciousness, and existence. The main thrust of Eliot's th...