Dr. Sexson began the class by reciting the beginning of our class text T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Burnt Norton I and asked us, "Where is the epiphany?"
Some people thought it was, "Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty." Others thought it was the birds singing for the first time, or the path into the garden, or perhaps the rose garden.
The epiphany is where the lotos rose from the pool, "And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,"
Rian Piccin in her blog has a good paragraph about the legend of the lotos flower and what it is supposed to represent. A manifestation of beauty and divine from brown hopeless water.
The narrator had a vision.....
There are little epiphanies & explosions as we read the texts, there is also a big one
BLOG about the nature of epiphany
**DO NOT go anywhere without T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets**
(Dr. Sexson will be checking up on us.)
In our groups we will each be memorizing about 20-30 lines of the Four Quartets. Let's reactivate the skill of memorization.
Each of the Quartets are places in the world and according to T.S. Eliot you have to discover that you happen to be in a place in order to have an epiphany.
Only through time can time be conquered.
Only through time can time be conquered.
Visit Annie Dillard's essay on the 1979 eclipse Annie Dillard Total Eclipse
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