![]() The chronotopes of the road and of the quest, to use Bahktin’s formula, are dominant in Four Quartets, and it is evident that time plays the most crucial part in it. This is certainly the case of Four Quartet. However, time-space, or chronotope, is perhaps even more important in poetry, even in lyric poetry, than in prose since poetry is much more condensed than prose and can be defined as time-space condensed in images. Bakhtin states that genre and genre varieties are determined by chronotope and that the most essential and leading part of it in literature is that of time. Mikhail Bakhtin in his seminal The Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel applies chronotope only to prose disregrading other genres, or arts, or culture in general. The image of time in Eliot, especially, in Four Quartets is, so to speak, a dramatis persona, one of the main characters of the poem. History in Four Quartets is revealed through the images of time and space. ![]()
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