Get East Coker Poem Images. When the eliot writes, in my beginning is my end, he must really mean it, because the ashes he's talking about in this poem could be his own ashes, which were placed in a church in east coker after he died. East coker is a tiny village in england that eliot's ancestors came from.
From this poem, eliot built a delicately intricate set of christian devotional poems, four quartets.…show more content… eliot opens the first section of east coker with the banner in my beginning is my end (l.1).
East coker poem by thomas stearns eliot. East coker is named after the hamlet in somersetshire where eliot's ancestors lived before immigrating to america in the 1660s; His main interests in life are poetry, music, thinking and doing nothing in particular outdoors. Later, his ashes were taken to east coker, his ancestral village in somerset, and buried at the st michael and all angels' church.