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    Burnt Norton I · Line 35 · into the box circle

    Box is the clipped evergreen used for the hedges of formal gardens; a ‘box circle’ is a round enclosure of such hedging. The garden at Burnt Norton is a formal one, laid out with hedged walks and ornamental pools. The walkers move along its alley ‘in a formal pattern’ — the garden’s geometry already suggests the ordered movement of a dance, which the second movement will make explicit.

    Interpretive Garden Dance

    Sources Ricks & McCue 2015 (locator to be verified)

    See also Burnt Norton: the house and its garden The drained pool

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