THE CONCEPT OF TIME AND ETERNITY: A STUDY IN RELATION TO ELIOT’S ‘FOUR QUARTETS’

Gazi Abdulla-hel- Baqui

doi:10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0101-ah

Authors

Gazi Abdulla-hel- Baqui Office of the Registrar, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0101-ah

Keywords:

Time; eternity; space, universe; philosophy; future

Abstract

The transgression of time which glides into eternity is a metaphysical concept. The meditative human mind has been profoundly influenced by this concept throughout the ages. T S Eliot, a great poet of English literature, deals the element of time in his ‘Four Quartets’ in a wonderful manner. This paper relatesEliot’s views on time as subjectivistic and at the same time philosophical. It also shows how Eliot builds a deceptively quiet piece of graceful lyric out of the metaphysical theme ‘time’ and how far Eliot’s success in the treatment of theme and the explanation of the concept is realistically convincing.

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