in Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Claire-Louise Bennett breaks up with illusions
- Written by Georgia Phillips, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Adelaide University
Alexey Demidov/UnsplashIn Burnt Norton, the opening section of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the poet moves down a passage “we did not take” and passes through a door “never opened” to arrive in a mythic rose garden. Here, in the thorny cradle of mournful innocence, a bird delivers the famous line:
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