
Four Quartets
In Our Time: Culture
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Come Da Me Der to the Unsaable
The unsayable is precisely what it's about. He was trained as a philosopher, a sceptical philosopher,. And his criticism of experience leads him towards a sense that the absolute, thy ultimate f experience is something beyond what can be said. Particularly when he reaches towards the divine. Much of the poem is concerned with trying to make us conceive the inconceivable. The state of being itself can only be known by absenting yourself from your ordinary self.
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