Little gidding
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This poem by T.S. Eliot explores the cyclical nature of exploration and discovery. It suggests that by continuously exploring the unknown, one will eventually arrive back at the beginning, having gained new insight and understanding of that place. The poem also references images like a hidden waterfall, children in an apple tree, and tongues of flame being folded into a knot of fire, implying the speaker has achieved a simplified state of clarity and awareness between the changing tides of life.
Little gidding
- 1. Little Gidding an ending? or a beginning? T.S. Elliot
- 2. We shall not cease from exploration
- 3. And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started
- 4. And know the place for the first time.
- 5. Through the unknown, unremembered gate
- 6. When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning;
- 7. At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall
- 8. And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for
- 9. But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.
- 10. Quick now, here, now, always A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
- 11. And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well
- 12. When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire
- 13. And the fire and the rose are one.