Four Quartets Study Guide consists of approx. 31 pages of summaries and analysis on Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Browse the literature study guide below:
In the first section, past time and present time exist in future time, and all time is, to quote Eliot, "irredeemable." What might have been and what has been is all a world of speculation, an echo in one's memory, but to what purpose is a mystery. Sitting in a rose garden, the narrator hears children laughing, and a bird says to follow them. The narrator follows them and peers into a pool. He realizes that humankind cannot bear very much reality. (
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