This poem lists "the Almanach de Gotha" and "the Directory of Directors" among things that go into "into the silent funeral, Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury."
This poem lists "the Almanach de Gotha" and "the Directory of Directors" among things that go into "into the silent funeral, Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury." A book by the author's ancestor titled The Governour is the source of some lines in this poem, which asserts that "Old men ought to be explorers." This poem laments "twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres," a period of time that included its author's divorce from his wife (*) Vivienne Haigh-Wood. It analogizes Christ saving man from original sin to the "wounded surgeon" who "plies the steel." This poem's title locale is a village in Somerset that contains the church of St. Michael's, where the author's ashes were later buried under a plaque that quotes its closing and opening - "In my end is my beginning" and "In my beginning is my end." For 10 points, name this poem that comes after "Burnt Norton," the second of the Four Quartets.
This poem lists "the Almanach de Gotha" and "the Directory of Directors" among things that go into "into the silent funeral, Nobody's funeral, for there is no one to bury."
"East Coker"