期刊名称：International Journal of Educational Research and Technology
印刷版ISSN：0976-4089
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：16-17
出版社：Society of Education
摘要：It is needless to say that Anita Desai has culled the concept of time from eminent modern poet Thomas Stern Eliot who personifies time as the destroyer as well as preserver as Shelley personifies the west wind asthe "Destroyer and Preserver".Shelley also views time as a destructive and creativepower or god what is vivid in his sonnetOzymandiasand Ode to the West Wind.W.B Yeats in his The Second Coming shows how time destroys one civilization and gives birth to others. Time causesgreat empires like Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian etc.flourishand decayat the same time. However, Anita Desai herself opines:"My novel is about time as a destroyer, as a preserver, and about what the bondage of time does to people. I have tried to tunnel under the mundane surface of domesticity.
