"Eliot's Waste Land"

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…allusions, signaling collapse of society, then, compensation, finally an urge for innocence. The publication of The Waste Land was an important event in the development of modern English poetry. It contrasts the spiritual stagnation of the present with the myths of the past. It proved to be a fine vehicle for meditating on the fate of civilization after World War I. Just as Eliot was also ciphering his own struggle with sin, sanity, and salvation.