This paper anlalyzes the issue of time as it is reflected in literatur and in our lives, using the works "The Sound and the Fury" by william Faulkner, "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot, and "Dwellings" by Linda Hogan as sources to show different peceptions of time and different ways of seeing how time passes and what the rleationsipo between past and present may be.