The author of "Four Quartets" is Thomas Stearns Eliot. This work is a representative work of Eliot's late poetry. Its style is very different from his early poetry, and it reflects his mature philosophical thoughts and world view. The poet borrows his ancestors and four memorable places in his own life as the title of the poem. "Burn Norton" refers to the ruins of a rose garden in a British country house; "East Cook" refers to the village and village roads where Eliot lived in England; "Stelvedge" refers to a seaside village in Massachusetts, USA. On the rocks; "Little Gidding" refers to a small church in the Anglican settlement during the British Civil War in the 17th century. Thomas Stearns Eliot, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature.

"Four Quartets" is a modernist classic work that perfectly combines poetry and music. Eliot's creative concept has already preset the musicological concept of "quartet". The thematic meaning of Eliot's work is constructed with the help of musical techniques such as polyphony, counterpoint, harmony, and variation. Only by first starting from the musical theme structure and related musical techniques can we fully understand the aesthetic value of this work.

The traditional Western dualistic thought is the philosophical background of "Four Quartets". "Four Quartets" presents a series of dualistic thoughts such as finite and infinite, instant and eternity, past and future, life and death, etc. Eliot's intention is to think about ways to resolve binary contradictions and thereby find ways to save human time. The poet discovered that the significance of Jesus Christ's "incarnation" provided the highest principle for human experience and time. The "incarnation" of Jesus Christ solved the problems of the unity of finite and infinite, the integration of emotion and reason, and the intersection of humanity and divinity. The poet hopes that human beings can understand the transcendent world from the experiential world, thereby integrating the experiential world and the transcendent world. Become one. This idea is also evident in the style of poetry. The poet strengthens the theme of poetry through religious and theological paradoxical verbal expressions, metaphorical and symbolic tendencies of images, and musical treatment of stylistic structures. .