
205 - Literature and the Four Quartets
Godsplaining
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The Garden of Gethsemane
In the Christian poem, whenever I'm reading about the garden, I'm immediately thinking the harmony of Eden. And there's something nostalgic that happens whenever you whenever you conjure Eden. That's coupled in my mind with the image of a rose, which is in plenty of Christian art and poetry, a symbol of Christ's passion. There's a beautiful connection between that and the rosary. So I'm seeing I'm seeing attention in the garden as both the place where you where you want to be in a kind of nostalgic sense, place you want to return to but also a place that needs to be healed by time.
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