set poems written published individually year period poem written published collection early works following production play murder cathedral years composed poems east written world war air raids great_britain poems collected publisher printed published series great_britain end poetic career common theme man relationship time universe divine describing understanding divine poems blends mystical philosophical poetic works eastern western religious cultural traditions references cross julian critics find great work contemporary critics including dissatisfied overt later critics disagreed claims poems argued instead religious themes poem stronger overall reviews poem great_britain favourable reviews united_states split liked later style felt abandoned positive aspects earlier poetry background working play murder cathedral came idea poem structured similarly waste land resulting poem named manor house published edition decided create poem similar different location mind second poem east finished published visited east ashes michael church finishing second poem world war began disrupt life spent time great_britain helping war time began working poem near end poem published february immediately began plot fourth poem health declined stayed illness war disrupted ability write dissatisfied draft believed problem poem started poem soon written quickly september stopped writing focused september finished poem finally published writing thought creating quartet poems reflect idea elements loosely seasons parts associated classical elements constituent poems air earth water fire little support poems matching individual seasons described meant quartet september letter poems particular set form elaborated word quartet start people right track understanding case musical suggests notion making poem weaving unrelated themes poem degree success making new published series new_york london original title supposed time poems kept separate entity united_states collected plays united_kingdom delay collecting rest poetry separated work result development earlier poems world war outbreak world war pushed belief worth defending society germany stopped little mention war writing pieces like defence islands war central adds aspects experience serving building london blitz favoured giving hope war later religious revival movement present time connected english civil war poems poem sections later poems connect earlier sections themes earlier poems sections poetry sections connect waste land allowed structure larger poems difficulty according structure based movement time brief moments caught experience leading dissatisfaction world soul love created things lyric prayer need problems attaining artistic merge problems achieving spiritual health points applied structure waste land necessarily merely longing discussion poem begins taken fragments translated wisdom common live wisdom second way upward way downward concept origin connected play murder cathedral poem discusses idea time concept present moment matters past changed future unknown poem begins narrator trying focus present moment walking garden focusing images sounds like bird roses clouds pool narrator meditation leads reach point doesn try experience place time instead experiencing grace sense iii meditation experience darker night comes night time bell buried day narrator reaches end meditation initially contemplating arts words music relate time narrator focuses particularly poet art manipulating words strain crack break burden time tension slip slide decay stay place stay comparison narrator concludes love cause end movement timeless reason spiritual experience love form consciousness interests narrator presumably creative act writing poetry east started writing east modelled poem way focus thoughts poem served sort opposite popular idea waste land served expression world war accepted interpretation poem focuses life death continuity humans seen science viewed unable save mankind flaws instead science reason lead mankind warfare humanity needs humble order escape cycle destruction saved people recognize christ need redemption began writing end air raids london managed finish poem quickly poem included personal images connecting childhood emphasised image water sailing metaphor humanity according poem connection mankind man accept drifting sea end broken rocks restrained time gave mankind hope able escape hope present understand patterns found past order meaning found meaning allows experience moments revelation little little started delayed declining health dissatisfaction early drafts poem unable finish poem september like previous poems central theme time humanity place generation seemingly united poem describes unification western discussing world war poem states humanity given choice bombing london holy spirit god love allows mankind escape living hell fire drew coda shall medieval mystic end poem describes attempted help world poet parallels work language working soul working society motifs believed poem mean different things reader absolute meaning poem needs discovered central meaning connect european literary tradition addition christian themes seeks unite european literature form unity especially creation familiar compound ghost supposed connect like time time viewed problematic beautiful true living time influence problem section people trapped time similar stuck life death deals past importance combat influence evolution encouraging people forget past care present future present capable reminding past moments rely idea krishna death come moment divine important considering future jesuit critic believed salvation happens time outside explained attempting wrote hard impression use mixture symbols christian imagination finally limited element fire day descent holy ghost disciples revelation time intersection suppose imagination theology alive points intersection descent continued focus time operated poem place faith hope love time points time sure mind interested line time christ spirit total sure imagination imagination saved time terror points intersection little doubt attracted image goal seeks goal human order lynch went point understanding time includes asian influences poems end beginning things constantly repeat use circular time similar way uses time ends rose garden image garden beginning repetition time affects memory travel past find divine memory poem similar discussed memory allows understand words life way discover memory understanding past time likewise view shares timeless words connected christ christ calls mankind join salvation music title connects music appears poems night song lecture called music poetry critics suggested classical works focused writing pieces particular literary criticism emphasis serving model claims rarely substance purpose quartet multiple themes section musical image distinct share performance east written way poems continuous create double quartet focused sounds imagination called doesn device especially concerned thematic development fix passages revision christianity critics compared believed live type world saying true god circle centre saint goes centre poet artist ring comes round believed system stuck time influenced reading appears wednesday changing desire away approach wrote personal topics tended use reference point relied imagery idea fire comes rose fire imagery makes way series love song alfred waste land ash wednesday time conception allows exist people able experience god directly long know fully understand tries create new system according able describe christianity restricted previous views fallen favour modern society contradicted science reasoned supposed preach theological system poet expose reader ideas religion stated learn read poetry properly poet persuades believe learn religious poetry feels like believe religion according possible appreciate agrees comes ideological ideology remembered attempt religious political premise religion snare instance follows enemy assaulted journal admire believe goal quest krishna poetry filled religious images common christianity brings hindu stories particular emphasis went far mark alludes hindu stories editions including page added compared battle scenes critical responses reviews favourable poem completed set received divided reviews united_states received overall favourably british american critics liked poetry appreciate religious content work abandoned philosophical aspects earlier poetry british response connected spirit work received series poems intended help nation difficult times went far assert universally appreciated crown achievement religious poetry appeals including share orthodox christian creed believed opposite argued clear departed kind current switched later verse contain earlier claimed improvement feel faith merely complex reasons fresh literary impulse years later wrote agree gave melancholy doctrines unbelievable past quarter century critics find christian faith impossible found greatest twentieth century achievements poetry philosophy religion like noticed difference earlier poetry disagreed conclusion attempt bring exact balance creative imagination attempts harness creative imagination earlier poetry ran course edited consciously directed achievement high order best qualities inevitably different waste land early american reviewers divided discussing theological aspects scrutiny summer analysed poems discussed verse makes concrete realities experience conceptual currency instead christian themes theology march opposite emphasised captured christian experience general relates literature spring issue scrutiny discussed image discuss relate appreciated work believed despair found poem meant christian poet felt understanding salvation help real world believed understand poems critics emphasised importance religious themes poem stated certain values necessary structure poems devote structure questioning meaning relevance work fact authentic example know modern poetry satisfying poetic meditation sense merely building intricate poetic form foundation experiences constant energy present activity thinking feeling analysis approaches apocalypse religious british poetry claimed quarter century lost status modern poem evolving merely play complex variations design motifs romantic representation poets educational progress late 20th century early 21st century critics continued religious emphasis pointed undeniably faults instance elementary anxious worried women section passages documenting detail moment time successful attempts mystical poetry spots time prelude mystical argued poems religious dimension claimed poems genuinely time speaking religious faith assume reader regard poem place historical context world war described aspects series appeal spoke spirit midst new crisis surprisingly readers allow poem carry secular appreciation biographers critic stated striking characteristic way sequences carefully structured echo echo sequence poem echoes companion sequence poem poems nation culture severely threat sense describe poem memory memory individual memory civilization
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