T. S. Eliot and the Arrow of Time
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T. S. Eliot’s poetry allows us to reexamine our understanding of the relation between art and science. Eliot has discovered a poetic evocation of the tension between entropic dissipation and self-organization that haunts the second law thermodynamics and non-linear thermodynamics, the later development of the second law. This paper examines Eliot’s unsettling journey of (re)discovering time or time’s arrow, with metaphors drawn from the theories of thermodynamics. While, in The Waste Land, Eliot discovers time that is irreversibly heading toward the tragic end of the thermal equilibrium predicated by the second law, he is able to rediscover time in Four Quartets, time which rather evolves in an ever-ascending spiral intimated in non-linear thermodynamics. This is the ‘spiral’ arrow of time, I will argue, with which Eliot comes to reclaim the past, the tradition, ultimately redeeming time itself. Eliot moves beyond the dualistic, antithetic concept of time versus eternity - time to be redeemed by eternity - to present rather a spiral pattern of eternal return, which unites time and timelessness, and stillness and movement.
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T. S. Eliot’s poetry allows us to reexamine our understanding of the relation between art and science. Eliot has discovered a poetic evocation of the tension between entropic dissipation and self-organization that haunts the second law thermodynamics and non-linear thermodynamics, the later development of the second law. This paper examines Eliot’s unsettling journey of (re)discovering time or time’s arrow, with metaphors drawn from the theories of thermodynamics. While, in The Waste Land, Eliot discovers time that is irreversibly heading toward the tragic end of the thermal equilibrium predicated by the second law, he is able to rediscover time in Four Quartets, time which rather evolves in an ever-ascending spiral intimated in non-linear thermodynamics. This is the ‘spiral’ arrow of time, I will argue, with which Eliot comes to reclaim the past, the tradition, ultimately redeeming time itself. Eliot moves beyond the dualistic, antithetic concept of time versus eternity - time to be redeemed by eternity - to present rather a spiral pattern of eternal return, which unites time and timelessness, and stillness and movement.
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