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Four Quartets

In Our Time: Culture

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The First Poem That Embeds the Idea of the Struggle in Writing

This is the first poem that really embeds within it the idea of the struggle in writing. And perhaps it does so more explicitly in this rather prosy way, which i sometimes find a little clonkey,. I know that might be seen as part of the point. The treatment of the faces in the underground, particularly when he gets on to the passages dealing with the underground. In each of the threeell not little getting, but the first three, there's a touching upon the experience of people in the underground. He means the underground to connect with the infernal. Of course, im there, life is apathetic, tumied, apathy, empty of meaning. It's

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