The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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The Wasteland : Overview of a Poem

Eliot provides for humanity a deep and complex picture , a story within a poem , alluding to culture in Europe and worldwide supposedly during the span of Eliot 's own life at the time of writing this poem The Wasteland in the very early 1920s . In reviewing the poem in its entirety , one can gather that perhaps Eliot references the personal , social , cultural , and political situations in his life , in Europe and other nations during this time period , including actual

historical events such as the astronomical WWI reparations demanded by the Allies from Germany in the Treaty of Versailles , the perceived Jewish /communist conspiracy to humiliate Germany at the end of the World War I , the great inflation in Germany preceding the Great Depression , the French and Belgian occupation of Duisburg , the Russian invasion of east Europe , the Irish resistance in Great Britain , the attempted coup of Germany by Hitler and the fascist , racist national socialists (NAZIs , Mussolini 's fascist march on Rome , the surge in ideology against what was termed as Marxism democracy , anarchy , and class warfare as well as the surge in ideology against the bankers financial systems , the struggle for women 's suffrage in Europe , and the Bubonic Plague in India . Referencing the current cultural climate of this time in regard to the negative situations affecting the life of the writer Eliot himself is to put his poem The Wasteland into a workable frame , seeing his s , narrations...