T.S. Eliot Materialized by G. Douglas Atkins

Author:G. Douglas Atkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

There is, of course, no hint of the blood of martyrs, of saints, around the Elizabethan bonfire in “East Coker.” And yet that land, too, somehow feels almost holy because it supports a “type” of “dignified and commodious sacrament.” The Chorus essentially reiterates this point in continuing, themselves a “type of the common man,” that is, of persons just like the rustics:

Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire;

Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted;

Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God;

Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal,

Less than we fear the love of God.

We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault; we acknowledge

That the sin of the world is upon our heads; that the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints

Is upon our heads.17

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