Below is a yew-tree, which could live to be 2,000 years old, at least that's the potential lifespan of this kind of tree. To the left, as everyone probably knows, is a rose. The actual flower of the rose only lives through the warm season of each year. "The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/ Are of equal duration" (Eliot 58). I have an inkling that this may be in relation to the twenty-minute lifetime, but in a more obscure way. The life of the rose and the life of the yew-tree are contained in one moment, a lifetime in one moment. It doesn't matter how long the yew-tree outlives the rose because the rose and the yew-tree are in a cycle of constant life and death where each moment represents their beginning and their end.