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Reading Eliot’s “Attachment,” “Detachment” and “Indifference” through His Four Quartets

Eliot divides human attitudes into three characteristics “indifference,” “detachment” and “attachment.” Among them, Eliot regards detachment as the most important thing. Detachment means abandoning our selfish mind. By doing so we could live a better life, allowing us to liberate from time and history. And Eliot says that indifference is between the live and the dead nettle, so it does not affect anything at all. And attachment is characterized by selfish love and men’s curiosity about past and future. Eliot draws these characteristics in his Four Quartets in detail.