This is short Analysis of the poem East Coker by T.S. Eliot.
POEM:
So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years–
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres
Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it, and so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate–but there is no competition–
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
About T.S. Eliot:
Thomas Stearns Eliot, was a writer, distributor, dramatist, abstract and social commentator, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States, to an unmistakable Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at 25 years old, settling, working, and wedding there. He turned into a British subject in 1927 at 39 years old, repudiating his American passport.
Eliot pulled in broad consideration for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which was viewed as a perfect work of art of the Modernist development. It was trailed by probably the best-known poems in the English dialect, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Fiery debris Wednesday" (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He was likewise known for his seven plays, especially Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his extraordinary, pioneer commitment to display day verse"......READ MORE
