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Death by burial poem summary​

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In summary, Eliot’s poem opens, famously, with a declaration that ‘April is the cruellest month’. This is because, we are told, flowers and plants grow – as you’d expect from springtime – but they grow ‘out of the dead land’. Few people would probably name April as the cruellest of the twelve months, so immediately Eliot’s poem (possibly recalling, and overturning, the opening line of Chaucer’s ‘General Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales) is out to surprise us with the unexpected.