The Waste Land Complete Text
The Waste Land e-text contains the full text of The Waste Land.
The Waste Land e-text contains the full text of The Waste Land.
The Question and Answer section for The Waste Land is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The title, The Burial of the Dead, speaks to the theme of death and loss and the continuity of suffering and spiritual decay.
The Waste Land is set in a post war wastelend... a place destroyed by a massive war. The poem was written post WWI.
The poem closes with the repetition of the three words the thunder said: "Give, show compassion, and control yourself." This is what will help a disordered world.