“Five Quartets”. There has been some discussion as to whether T.S. Eliot’s poem “Four Quartets” is a Modernist poem or not: I think not. This poem, however, is definitely a Postmodernist one; it is a truncated version of “Four Quartets” which, at nearly a thousand lines, seemed to me to be far too long. This version is Eliot’s poem with most of the words removed, and runs to a more economical seventy-five lines.
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