ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot’s 1943 book Four Quartets . It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton .

Detailed explanation-2: -It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after Burnt Norton. It was finished during early 1940 and printed in the UK in the Easter edition of the 1940 New English Weekly, and in the US in the May 1940 issue of Partisan Review.

Detailed explanation-3: -East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot’s 1943 book Four Quartets, one of the pillar books of this great poet. Its key messages are around the need for human beings, and leaders, in particular, to embrace paradox and complexity and avoid looking a purely mechanistic view of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred Prufrock, ” published in Poetry magazine, and other poems that are landmarks in the history of modern literature. Eliot’s most notable works include The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and the play Murder in the Cathedral (1935).

Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Stearns Eliot is buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, East Coker, Somerset, England. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were interred below his memorial plaque on Easter Sunday 1965. Eliot’s ancestors originated from East Coker before emigrating to America in the 17th century.