Yes Eliot is touching upon

Elusive Trope — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:08:26 +0000

Yes Eliot is touching upon the same phenomenon, of course he says it better and adds to it a depth of pathos.

. We can take the time to

Flavius — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:39:45 +0000

In reply to New Year's Resolution #215: Don't Fear the Loop

. We can take the time to reflect on that which has passed and ponder the future of what will be. But what will be was contained in that past, and what was lives in that which will be.

Another Trope

Time present and time past

are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

.Only in a world of speculation................................

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Is that similar or close to what you are saying?

In fairness to Eliot I shouldn't wrench those couple of lines out of the poem as if standing alone they give you an idea of what Eliot is saying. Just to prevent that, here's a couple more

Sudden in a shaft of sunlight

Even while the dust moves

There rises the hidden laughter

Of children in the foliage

Quick now, here, now, always----

Ridiculous the waste sad time

Stretching before and after

from Burnt Norton

T. S. Eliot

Thanks for taking the time to

Flavius — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:54:41 +0000

In reply to New Year's Resolution #215: Don't Fear the Loop

Thanks for taking the time to write this.

This will seem ungracious (because it is) but a consensus is always "general."

Happy New Year

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Yes Eliot is touching upon

. We can take the time to

Thanks for taking the time to