 Critics classify Little Gidding as a poem of fire with an emphasis on purgation and the Pentecostal fire . The beginning of the poem discusses time and winter , with attention paid to the arrival of summer . The images of snow , which provoke desires for a spiritual life , transition into an analysis of the four classical elements of fire , earth , air and water and how fire is the primary element of the four . Following this is a discussion on death and destruction , things unaccomplished , and regret for past events . 
 Critics classify Little Gidding as a poem of fire with an emphasis on purgation and the Pentecostal fire . The beginning of the poem <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>discusses</mark></a> time and winter , with attention paid to the arrival of summer . The images of snow , which provoke desires for a spiritual life , transition into an analysis of the four classical elements of fire , earth , air and water and how fire <a href='drop_aux' title='2'><mark>is</mark></a>the primary element of the four . Following this <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>a discussion on death and destruction , things unaccomplished , and regret for past events . 
Critics classify lil Gidding as a poem of fire w an emphasis on purgation and the Pentecostal fire . The beginning of the poem discuss time and winter , with attention paid to the arrival of summer . The images of snow , which provoke desires fir a spiritual life , transition into an analysis of the four classical elements of fire , earth , air and water and how fire the primary element of the four . Following this a discussion on death and destruction , things unaccomplished , and regret fa past events .