T. S. Eliot, “East Coker” [Poetry for Easter]

Each week during Eastertide I am posting a poem that helps me engage more meaningfully with Jesus' resurrection. Here is stanza IV of T. S. Eliot's poem "East Coker," which is from Four Quartets (1943). Thomas Stearns Eliot is probably the most famous twentieth-century English-language poet, renowned for his groundbreaking work typified in poems like …