The Wasteland
Eliot's fragmented epic
*The Waste Land* is T.S.
Eliot's 1922 modernist poem, a fragmented meditation on spiritual emptiness and cultural decay after World War I.
Its difficulty and allusive density made it a landmark of literary modernism.
More generally, a wasteland is barren, desolate land—or any place or condition marked by spiritual or cultural emptiness: The suburbs felt like an intellectual wasteland.
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- barrenUnable to produce
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- dustFine settled particles
drought · decay · bleak · scorched · scorched earth · burnt out · desert · rubble · ash · survivor · hollow · parched · Eliot · modernist · poetry · fragments · sterile · thunder
The WastelandSong of Myself
Extended lyric celebrating individual identity
Leaves of Grass · Psalms · Ode to Joy · Tintern Abbey · celebration of life
The WastelandGarden of Eden
Biblical first home
paradise · promised land · Arcadia · pastoral landscape · land of milk and honey
waste, land, wasted, wasting, wasteful, wastefully, wastefulness, wastage, wastes