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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
This was one of those magical right book at the right time experiences for me just now. Especially Nos. 1 and 2..... I definitely want to study this one, though.
“These things have served their purpose: let them be…For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice…So I find words I never thought to speak in streets I never thought I should revisit when I left my body on a distant shore… the rending pain of re-enactment… from wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire where you must move in measure, like a dancer.”
The day was breaking. In the disfigured street he left me, with a kind of valediction, and faded on the blowing of the horn.
The day was breaking. In the disfigured street he left me, with a kind of valediction, and faded on the blowing of the horn.
challenging
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
reflective
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Fun(ny) fact(s): Summer reading challenge Bingo with the Dayspring youth: #24: a book of poetry!
Favorite quote/image: "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. / Through the unknown, remembered gate / When the last of earth left to discover / Is that which was the beginning / ... Quick now, here, now, always– / A condition of complete simplicity / (Costing not less than everything) / And all shall be well and / All manner of thing shall be well / When the tongues of flame are in-folded / Into the crowned knot of fire / And the fire and the rose are one." ("Little Gidding," V, lines 239-245, 252-259)
Honorable mention: "And the right action is freedom / From past and future also. / For most of us, this is the aim / Never here to be realised; / Who are only undefeated / Because we have gone on trying; / We, content at the last / If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too farm from the yew-tree) / The life of significant soil." ("The Dry Salvages," V, lines 224-233)
Why: I struggle to understand and appreciate poetry, so I usually dislike it and avoid reading it, but reading the Four Quartets during Covid in a GTX class changed my life. Since then, I try to re-read this every year during Holy Week (but did not this year). Every time I read them, I am struck by the beauty of his images and the haunting and lilting cadence, and each time, I stumble across another previously overlooked treasure. The four poems work beautifully in tandem as season and elements, interwoven yet unique, moving from despair to the true hope found only in God.
Favorite quote/image: "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. / Through the unknown, remembered gate / When the last of earth left to discover / Is that which was the beginning / ... Quick now, here, now, always– / A condition of complete simplicity / (Costing not less than everything) / And all shall be well and / All manner of thing shall be well / When the tongues of flame are in-folded / Into the crowned knot of fire / And the fire and the rose are one." ("Little Gidding," V, lines 239-245, 252-259)
Honorable mention: "And the right action is freedom / From past and future also. / For most of us, this is the aim / Never here to be realised; / Who are only undefeated / Because we have gone on trying; / We, content at the last / If our temporal reversion nourish / (Not too farm from the yew-tree) / The life of significant soil." ("The Dry Salvages," V, lines 224-233)
Why: I struggle to understand and appreciate poetry, so I usually dislike it and avoid reading it, but reading the Four Quartets during Covid in a GTX class changed my life. Since then, I try to re-read this every year during Holy Week (but did not this year). Every time I read them, I am struck by the beauty of his images and the haunting and lilting cadence, and each time, I stumble across another previously overlooked treasure. The four poems work beautifully in tandem as season and elements, interwoven yet unique, moving from despair to the true hope found only in God.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
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challenging
reflective
slow-paced
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Strong character development:
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Loveable characters:
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Diverse cast of characters:
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Flaws of characters a main focus:
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challenging
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Absolutely profound! So profound, in fact, that i couldn’t make sense of most of what Mr Eliot was trying to say in this book. But what I did understand, I loved. Burnt Norton is by far my favourite :)
T. S. Eliot‘s Four Quartets is often regarded as his finest work. Composed of four interlinked poems, you will be surprised at how many lines you recognize. Don’t let Eliot’s circular sounding opening put you off. You have to let the words wash over you at first — take the metaphorical plunge, so to speak. (Yes, I realize I said you were just dipping your toe in, and now I’ve told you to jump all the way in. Do it.) Chock full of so many quotable phrases, these poems have a way of settling into you, and for ever after affecting how you experience your life.
Read more here: www.gimmesomereads.com/three-thoughtful-quick-reads.
Read more here: www.gimmesomereads.com/three-thoughtful-quick-reads.