| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 英國語文學系 === 86 === Most critics would agree that time is a recurrent theme in
Four Quartets.In each quartet, we have passages which deal with
the theme of time. However,inspite of the significance of time
as a major theme in Four Quartets. There are none the less few
critics who take pains to study the theme of time
systematically. Therefore, it still leaves, I think, much room
for critical re-evaluation of the importance of time as a theme
in Four Quartets. And this is the reason why I decide to do
research on the concept of time in Four Quartets both
thematically and systematically. In addition to the
introduction and the conclusion, I will divide the body of my
thesis into four chapters, following the sequence of the four
quartets. Each quartet embodies a unique version of timeless
moments. "Burnt Norton" will focus on the intensified moment in
the rose-garden and the ambivalent center of time--the still
point. "East Coker" will focus on the pattern of time as
succession of the beginning and the end. "The Dry Salvages"
will focus on the point of the intersection of the timeless with
time. "Little Gidding" will focus on the immediate present and
the timeless moment which culminates in the union of the fire
and the rose. And finally I will conclude with the proposition
that the timeless moment is the ultimate goal Eliot would like
to achieve in pursuing the pattern of time in Four Quartets.
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