Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar

Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar discusses how Four Quartets should be explored afresh with a prosodic-philosophically sustained interdisciplinary and cross-cultural literary approach in ways as the often overlooked pivotal image of the Chinese jar so indicates in the great sequence; the pivotal image suggests the subtle but vital elixir from both ΓÇ£The ΓÇÿshores of Asia and the Edgware RoadΓÇÖ [which] are brought together as they had been brought together to The Waste Land.ΓÇ¥ With a steady focus on the function words-mediated and phonemes-facilitated, and ΓÇ£autochthonouslyΓÇ¥ void-suggesting verbal transformation, the book shows how the verbal transformation, especially of the cases with ΓÇ£parts of speechΓÇ¥ in the live context, makes Four Quartets truly a ΓÇ£rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beautyΓÇ¥; it demonstrates how the meaningful poetic beauty culminates in a quintessential state or being of poetry not merely being ΓÇ£poeticΓÇ¥ particularly in terms of its prosodically sustained philosophical tenets, which are often so serendipitously transformed into ΓÇ£virtuoso mastery of verbal music.ΓÇ¥ As genuine poetry, the great sequence flows freely from inside out at once in accordance with and in spirt of any given rhythmical form or rhyming pattern.