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Consider Eliot's full canon of poetic works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and his plays, among them Murder in the Cathedral.
Consider other modernist poets, such as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dylan Thomas.
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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.
