The Waste Land is one of the most known works written by T. S. Eliot at the beginning of the 1900s. This revolutionary modernist poem made T. S. Eliot a recognizable poet and writer. Modernism was considered to be one of the rejections against the already existed traditional literature norms of the 19 th century. Writers did not find enough powers to create something new and not ordinary to the settled norms. Eliot made a wonderful attempt to amaze the reader, and he did it really great. This modernist poem consists of 5 parts, each of them introduces a captivating story and concentrates on the things, which play a crucial role in the life of each person. The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, and What the Thunder Said are the five sections of this 434-line poem. The meaning of the title and of the poem itself is one of the most captivating issues, which have to be analyzed in this work: Eliot tries to unite past, present, and future into one whole, represent his vision of the current things from women’s perspective, and introduce his consciousness in the form of the journey that aims to underline how barren the modern world is. Modernism is one of the peculiar features of the 19 th century: some writers preferred to abandon current traditions and styles of writing in order to represent the society by means of new progressive forms and underline the world’s cynicism and desire to achieve more by means of the others. The Waste Land demonstrates the variety of contradictory points of view and examples of allusions, which were the major characteristics of breaking down the norms of Victorian and Romantic literature. Eliot’s first publishing caused numerous misunderstandings, critique, and admiration: people could not comprehend how the author may present such a great number of nontraditional techniques within one poem. The Waste Land seemed to present a little bit of everything: the beginning that symbolizes the death, life that may be compared to the game of chess, burning desire that makes our life fulfill, and other important for this life issues. It was crucially important to pick out the most considerable points from the modern world and introduce them in the poem. “London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down” (Eliot, 1922) is the 426 th line of The Waste Land and serves a good example of the author’s intention to represent the modern world in literature with the help of innovative techniques, which have not been used before. With the help of a thorough work of critics, it turns out to be a bit easier to determine the very meaning of the whole work. Let us analyze this poem as one of the reflections that demonstrates Elliot’s disappointment of the situation that was inherent to post-World War I Europe. The author uses the Holy Grail legend in order to underline how despairing and lost the modern world was. People wanted to find something new and used any possible way to achieve their purposes. Holy Grail is a myth that symbolized a cup with miraculous powers. The use of this symbol underlines that people were eager to find more powers to continue living and a miracle was the only thing that could help. The author wants to underline the inability of the modern natio