The title Four Quartets connects to music, which appears also in Eliot's poems "Preludes", "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", and "A Song for Simeon" along with a 1942 lecture called "The Music of Poetry". Some critics have suggested that there were various classical works that Eliot focused on while writing the pieces.
When did T.S. Eliot write 4 quartets?
Four Quartets, series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942 and in book form in 1943; the work is considered to be Eliot's masterpiece.
How many parts does Four Quartets T.S. Eliot consist?
five sections
What we call the beginning is often the end?
And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
What do the Four Quartets mean?
The Four Quartets are poems about a nation and about a culture which is very severely under threat, and in a sense, you could describe The Four Quartets as a poem of memory, but not the memory of one individual but the memory of a whole civilization."
Why did Eliot write Four Quartets?
Eliot establishes that Eliot had Beethoven in mind while writing them. The purpose of the quartet was to have multiple themes that intertwined with each other. Each section, as in the musical image, would be distinct even though they share the same performance.
Why is Four Quartets called Four Quartets?
Just as the first four sections of Eliot's "The Waste Land" mirror the four ancient elements (air, earth, water, and fire), the four poems of "Four Quartets" match this same pattern. "East Coker" is the name of a small village in Somerset, England where some of Eliot's classy British ancestors came from.