T.s. eliot poems wasteland

1922 poem by T. S. Eliot

For other uses, see Wasteland.

"Death by Water" redirects here. For the novel by Kenzaburō Ōe, see Death by Water (novel).

The Waste Land is a poem by T.

S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line^[A] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial.

Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins".

The Waste Land does not follow a single narrative or feature a consistent style or structure.

The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy, and features abrupt and unannounced changes of narrator, location, and time, conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literat