With a shower of rain, we stopped in the colonnade

Eliot starts his poem referencing the passing of time, but not in a chronological order, first the lilacs of April, then Winter, and finally Summer. It is not only the order of the seasons that has changed –one of the effects of war- but also the connotations related to spring and summer already the melancholic tone of the poem.

Atrium of the Carmen Museum, Valencia.