The Waste land is famous poem by eminent poet T.S Eliot.
Published in 1922,.
The poem is divided into five sections.
The first, "The Burial of the Dead", introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair.
The second, "A Game of Chess", employs alternating narrations in which vignettes of several characters display the fundamental emptiness of their lives.
"The Fire Sermon" offers a philosophical meditation in relation to self-denial and sexual dissatisfaction.
"Death by Water" is a brief description of a drowned merchant.
"What the Thunder Said" is a culmination of the poem's previously exposited themes explored through a description of a desert journey.
