The Waste Land
Eliot's modernist masterpiece fragments Western culture post-WWI. Through mythological allusions, multiple voices, and cultural debris, it depicts spiritual barrenness and the search for meaning in modernity. The poem is a meditation on death, rebirth, and cultural fragmentation.
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