Four Quartets

What is a possible interpretation of the fourth part of "Burnt Norton"?

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A possible interpretation of the fourth part of "Burnt Norton" is that the narrator of the poem is speaking from the grave, and is meditating upon his own finality in contrast to the sempiternal existence of which the "still point of the turning world" is a signifier.

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