The last section describes a meeting with "the first-met stranger in the fallen dusk" who says that "last year's words belong to last year's language /
William Gaddis incorporated every line of this poem into the text of The Recognitions. The last section describes a meeting with "the first-met stranger in the fallen dusk" who says that "last year's words belong to last year's language / And next's year's words await another voice." The second section opens with the line "In my beginning is my end" and is named for a location in Somerset. The first section begins "Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future," and is named for a manor in Gloucestershire, while the final section is named for a Cambridgeshire village. Comprised of "Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding," FTP, name this poem by T. S. Eliot.
William Gaddis incorporated every line of this poem into the text of The Recognitions.
“{Four Quartets}”