Four Quartets Midwinter Day and flowers and butterflies are

and flowers and butterflies are the poet’s interlocutors

inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric—or

In three uncanny acts

friendships

and drenched in the tears of the 21st century

Four Quartets Midwinter Day and flowers and butterflies areT. S. Eliot Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the