In these poems, Eliot takes many of the same points of reference he used to create "The Waste Land," but brings them together in a much more hopeful and un-cynical way. The poems were finally published as a series in 1942 (in New York) and 1943 (London). During this time, many people in England found Eliot's writing encouraging, because the thought of Nazi invasion made Eliot feel like he needed to defend England's culture and history, and in this sense, the war actually gave him the kick he needed to start getting a little more positive about the country he'd trashed so badly in "The Waste Land." Who would've thought that the threat of Nazi invasion was all it would take?Įliot wrote the four poems that make up "Four Quartets" at different times and published them in different years. That's surprising, really, since the dude wrote most of the thing while the Germans were dropping bombs over his head during World War Two. Well, in a nutshell, " Four Quartets" is about as hopeful a poem as you're ever going to get from T.S.
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