![]() ![]() ![]() He determines that death gives life meaning because that which has begun must also end. The speaker follows his train of thought to its logical conclusion: death. He knows that he will look back on this moment and remember it, but he can only do that by returning to the flow of time. However, the speaker knows that it is only through the construct of time that the state of enlightenment he has achieved gains any meaning. He no longer feels that he needs to get somewhere and has reached a state of stillness. He attunes his senses to the sounds of the birds, the smell of the flowers, and the movement of the clouds in an attempt to exist entirely in the moment.Īs the speaker’s meditation continues, he feels that he has come to exist outside of place and time. The speaker of the poem takes a walk in the garden and tries to focus completely on the present. Eliot imagines a construct in which all moments in the past and the present exist simultaneously at a time in the future. The first poem is called “Burnt Norton,” a meditative poem on the nature of time. ![]()
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