The Waste Land is a long poem by American-English poet T.S. Eliot, published in 1922. It is a foundational work of Modernism and one of the most influential works of the 20th century. It explores themes of disillusionment, disgust, the breakdown of relationships, and spiritual emptiness after World War I (1914β18).
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