Poetry: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets - Quartet No. 1: "Burnt Norton" performed by Ralph Fiennes
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- "Burnt Norton" is the first poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. He created it while working on his play Murder in the Cathedral, and it was first published in his Collected Poems 1909-1935. The poem's title refers to the manor house Eliot visited with Emily Hale in the Cotswolds.
Quartet No. 1: Burnt Norton
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Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
Quartet No. 1: Burnt Norton
I.
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
But to what purpose
Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves
I do not know.
Other echoes
Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?
Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,
Round the corner. Through the first gate,
Into our first world, shall we follow
The deception of the thrush? Into our first world.
There they were, dignified, invisible,
Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,
In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,
And the bird called, in response to
The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,
And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses
Had the look of flowers that are looked at.
There they were as our guests, accepted and accepting.
So we moved, and they, in a formal pattern,
Along the empty alley, into the box circle,
To look down into the drained pool.
Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,
And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,
And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light,
And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.
Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.
Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
II
Garlic and sapphires in the mud
Clot the bedded axle-tree.
The trilling wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.
The dance along the artery
The circulation of the lymph
Are figured in the drift of stars
Ascend to summer in the tree
We move above the moving tree
In light upon the figured leaf
And hear upon the sodden floor
Below, the boarhound and the boar
Pursue their pattern as before
But reconciled among the stars.
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Source: Four Quartets read by Ralph Fiennes, 2009
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Finally a version that allows the listener to savor each word
The Best Pf TS Eliot
Thanks, I am more able to understand this rendering of Eliot, his prosody, his meaning, with this direct narration...
This brilliant recitation deserves far more views!
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Amazing! Thank you so much! 🙏❤🥰
Transcendental! Great reading
Thank you so much. You now have e new and dedicated suscriber
Wonderful. So. Good
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I am obsessed with this
It is a good obsession: an extended koan that promises new understandings just around the corner, with each re- reading. Hints and guesses, hints followed by guesses.
I wish I was more fluent in English to understand this better. Perhaps one day.
De Lima, I don't think you need to worry about fully understanding...just let the sounds work their magic on you!
It's difficult enough even for those fluent in English!
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Спасибо, желание знать английский,
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Impressive that he has memorised The Four Quartets.
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We shall not cease from exploration
As I hear this I just want to continue to print my Catechism out.
Eliot meeting Dogen Zenji.
Sorry ! This is quite dreadful !! Why on earth do they chose these precious , pampered Thespians to read a poem ?
They invariably give the most appalling mannered recitation
like a feeble imitation of Olivier .!! Or a parody of same .?
I agree. Other commentators are applauding his interpretation, so maybe we're missing something, but if I'm being honest I can't stand to listen to this for more then a couple of minutes. Such an insipid, bourgeois interpretation that desperately tries to convince the listener that its dreary pace is a sign of profundity, when, in my opinion, it simply betrays the orator's lack of engagement with the text beyond a merely sensuous, passive enjoyment.
I'm guessing both of you are academic theorists or critics who wouldn't be able to perform a single line to save your lives?
You don't seem to be very happy.
@georgepantzikis
Thank you George ,I thought I was the only one ! We do seem to have upset a few people with our comments I'm glad to say.!
To be fair ; Jeremy Irons does a nicely judged reading of The Waste Land elsewhere on CZcams . I can only assume that , unlike Ralph Fiennes he has a Director who actually knew something about Poetry and wasn't overawed by the presence of a Movie Star !??
Guess again D******d !!