The Waste Land

the burial of the dead

what is the relevance of this title to the poem?

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Eliot labels his first section “The Burial of the Dead,” with a title pulled from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. He has been careful to lay out his central theme before the first stanza has even begun: death and life are easily blurred; from death can spring life, and life in turn necessitates death.

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