Dialogue 2: East Coker

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this second dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on quartet two, East Coker. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. A free version can be accessed online here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7th, 2024. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.5	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.4	And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:16.0	Welcome everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to season 10 of turning to the Mystics where we're turning to
0:28.5	T.S. Elliot and his poems in the Four Quartets and I'm here with Jim to discuss his second session where you took us through the stunning poem East Cocoa.
0:42.0	Welcome Jim. Welcome, Jim.
0:43.0	Yes, thank you, yes.
0:45.0	I would be in this with you, and all the folks listening in.
0:49.0	So much to talk about today.
0:51.0	I'm looking forward to diving in. Before we dive into the poem itself,
0:56.0	Jim, just a couple of things I noticed. I remember in our introduction how we talked about
1:01.5	T.S. Elliot being a very innovative
1:03.8	poet for his time and you mentioned that one of the ways he was innovative was
1:09.0	that he moved through all different types of poetic form.
1:12.6	And you can really see that in this poem.
1:15.6	And what I think the significance of that is,
1:18.0	and when you can read commentaries to on Teaselli
1:21.5	from a literary point of view.
1:23.6	In a way, he feels very free to move around
1:26.4	with different forms in terms of meter and pacing of words.
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