In the Tempest when Miranda and her father are discussing the act of recalling things you have forgotten I thought back to an idea Professor Sexson often discusses, the idea that we know everything we've only forgotten. In relation to this I found many passages in The Four Quartets that detailed this theory.
"By strength and submission, has already been discovered/Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope/To emulate"
Everything we need is there for us, we just cannot recall it. Miranda was able to break through this barrier however and recall things from her childhood with the help from her father.
"We had the experience but missed the meaning/And approach to the meaning restores the experience."
Miranda misses the meaning of the storm and the ship. She believes it to be the truth when she has already discovered it is not. Her father helps her to see the meaning and therefore re-create the experience she has missed helping her again to discover.
"We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time."
Miranda has only begun to explore the ideas from her past and is just starting to experience it for the first time.
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