The Waste Land is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century. The poem first appeared in the literary magazine The Criterion in 1922. It was published in book form in October 1922 by the American publisher Boni & Liveright. The poem is divided into five sections, each of which is preceded by a Latin title: “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “The Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”, and “What the Thunder Said”.
The poem is Eliot’s response to the devastation of World War I. The Waste Land is an important work of modernist literature; its style is characterized by fragmentation, irony, and allusions.
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