Eliot's "Burnt Norton" The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. ... Each quartet separates into five sections. ... Just as past, present, and future cannot be separated with any precision, neither can the words used to describe them. ... A place of unattainable peace (and in this case insight) that is normally forbidden to mere mortals but that exists in memory and in literature as a standard to which everyday existence must be unfavorably compared. ... They are not only symbols, "but symbols that are meant to imply a certain frame of interpretati...

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