T. S. Eliot

What a difficult poem to read! It confuses me. Its many voices make me feel to be lost sometimes. It is well-known this poem, The Waste Land, was written in a period among the two worst wars in the world and the changes of world’s economy. Obviously, these facts influenced so much in this Eliot’s work. It is really amazing to see how Eliot portraits these facts in this poem. But it needs lots of analyzing to catch these ideas.

First of all, we know Eliot was a very smart person, who studied many things related to science, history, philosophy, and literature, among others. Therefore, in this poem, Eliot mixed many concepts of these subjects in The Waste Land. However, what meaning did Eliot give to this title?

From my point of view, this title means the land that men waste in terms of men have missed a beautiful nature land to destroy it with wars, industries, pollution, cities, greed, and so on. Where is this land? This land is disappearing every day with humans’ neglects.

Nevertheless, there are some people who want to change and stop this destroying, as Eliot states in his poems, especially this one which war is highlighted. Thinking in changes and try to change this society is very difficult because this world is full of fears and insecurities. This is a constant fight as personal (thoughts) as social. It is really important to see beyond what are in front of us, trying to find the true. We have to analyze and question all things control us. I know what I wrote is very difficult to understand, but now I have more understanding of this poem and Eliot’s position.