Mysticism and Sufism in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets
Ashti Anwar Muhammed
University of Sulaimani – Translation Department
Asma Jasim Muhammad
University of Sulaimani – Translation Department
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.4.19
Keywords: Modern- Poetry Four Quartets Salvation Happiness Sufism
Abstract
This paper attempts to trace mysticism in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
with a special focus on the mystical elements in the poems with their
relevant dimensions. It also aims at looking at different literatures
around Eliot’s works which consider Eliot as an atheist poet whose
earlier writings contain secularist ideas but that only his Four Quartets
and ‘Ash Wednesday’ contain some differences to faith, with the aim
of proving that Eliot was not an atheist writer.
This paper also looks at the mystical aspects of Eliot’s Four
Quartets which shift into a deeper aspect of life that is Sufism. No
studies have been done on this significant aspect of his Four Quartets
The study also aims at presenting the answer that Eliot proposes to the
problem of the people in the twentieth century through analyzing the
hidden meanings of his poems
