{"id":5939,"date":"2025-08-07T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeplacefairies.com\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:10:39","slug":"poetry-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeplacefairies.com\/blog\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Poetry in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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po-et-ry<\/p>\n

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Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.<\/p>\n

The following excerpt from the poem Little Gidding was written in the year 1942 and is the fourth and final poem of T.S. Eliot’s, Four Quartets<\/em>, a series of poems that discuss time, perspective, humanity, and salvation.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Stearns Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and remains a highly distinguished poet, publisher, essayist, playwright and critic.<\/p>\n

He was born in St. Louis Missouri in 1888.<\/p>\n

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Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

Music; On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter<\/p>\n

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