期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The present paper aims to observe to what extent Heraclitus' "Unity of Opposition"and Bergson's "duration" are discernible in Eliot's "Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "FourQuartets," which consists of four sections – "Burnt Norton," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages,"and "Little Gidding." It seeks to see in which passages and to what purpose Eliot has distancedhimself real time and replaces it with cyclic and subjective or inner time. Neither Heraclitus inhis negation of opposition nor Bergson in his duration admit separation among past, present;they are both of the opinion that time should be approached in terms of unity, continuity, andtotality. The paper shows that among other kinds of time, such as real, sequential, biographical,and objective time, there are passages in Eliot's poems which can be said to be in line withHeraclitan and Bergsonian conception of temporality.
