艾略特组诗《四个四重奏》的第一首“燃毁的诺顿”旨在表明时间中的现在与永恒之间的关系。永恒极动而又极静 ,是这个在于时间之中的世界的支撑点。时间现在的首先特征是它现下存在而又现下消失 ,即其“暂存”性和“有终”性。其次 ,它位于过去和未来的夹缝之间 ,即“在不存在和存在之间”。现在的这种特性使人的生存虚幻而下堕。但人只有先经受时间中的堕落然后才可能得到永恒的提升。 The first “burning Norton” of Eliot’s poem “Four Quartets” aims to show the relationship between time and eternity in time. Eternal extremely dynamic and very quiet, this is the time of the world’s support point. The first characteristic of time now is that it now exists and disappears now, that is, it is “temporary” and “final”. Second, it lies between the past and the future, between “non-existence and existence.” Now this feature makes people’s lives illusory and fall. But man can withstand eternal ascension only after it has suffered the first degradation of time.