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Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, will not stay still. The poet gives credence to the notion that mans reservoir of timeless knowledge is actually accessible to all who are willing to engage the imagination. Shrieking voices scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, always assail them t. Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden of time, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still 7. Following vames 1978, the use of terms relating to. Or as ts eliot more expertly put it in four quartets. Shrieking voices scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, always assail them.
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The narrator focuses particularly on the poets art of manipulating words which strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden of time, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, and will not stay in place. Jan 09, 2011 as in all the quartets, this one has a great musing on the problem of language and the imprecision of words. Such displaced terms are identified in this chapter. Eliot, quartet i, burnt norton, 1935 in his seminal paper words, david kaplan addresses a pair of questions that have been largely neglected by the.
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