T. S. 엘리엇의 번트 노턴 읽기: 아우구스티누스의 고백록 의 관점에서

“Reading T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” with Respect to Augustine’s Confessions. Studies in British and American Language and Literature

As widely known, Augustine’s ideas of time affected Eliot profoundly, leading the latter to classify time into three different categories. In short, the concept of Augustine’s time is that of extension where time never ends in the past, present nor future but interlocks them. Furthermore, Eliot also suggests that these three tenses are always present and contained within each other. Therefore, both Augustine and Eliot emphasize the present. The present has a continuity without breaks in it. Time’s significance which Augustine and Eliot define is drawn in a similar way as a continuum.