Poem 4 quartets: Quartet 4 ” Little Gidding ” Part 3 (from: “In other
places, here and abroad…..)
He quotes the words of the medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich:
“Sin is Behovely, but/ All shall be well, and/ All manner of thing shall be well “. The past of England is divided by the good intentions of divided forces- the high church Anglicanism of Charles 1 (the king at nightfall) verses the puritan strand of Miltan (“one who died blind and quite “), as well as differing forces in the War of Roses We cannot bring back these divisions, for even they accepted a synthesis –as can be seen in the symbols they leave us, ones purified of personal motive. The allusion to the fourteenth- century English Mystic suggests that sin is commonplace among mankind, there is a way to overcome one’s failings and attain spiritual wholeness.