The last of these poems suggests that we "cannot restore old policies or follow an antique drum" before claiming that the dead "accept the constitution of silence.
The last of these poems suggests that we "cannot restore old policies or follow an antique drum" before claiming that the dead "accept the constitution of silence." That poem compares attachment, detachment, and indifference to roses in a thornbush and ends by claiming that "all manner of thing shall be well" when "the fire and the rose are one." Another of these poems suggests that life is meaningful if we nourish "the life of significant soil" and declares "there are only hints and guesses / hints followed by guesses." The third of them begins by comparing a river to "a strong brown god," while the second one repeats the line "In my beginning is my end." The first of these poems is named for a manor in Gloucestershire, and grew out of a deleted passage from its author's play Murder in the Cathedral. For 10 points, name this cycle of poems by T. S. Eliot which includes "The Dry Salvages," "Little Gidding," and "Burnt Norton."
The last of these poems suggests that we "cannot restore old policies or follow an antique drum" before claiming that the dead "accept the constitution of silence.
Four Quartets [accept "Little Gidding" before "significant soil"]