Title: The Waste Land
Description: Arguably the single most important poem of the Twentieth Century, paving the way for experimental verse for the next hundred years.
Subjects: modernism, world war I, war, aftermath of war, disillusionment, horror, sex, Tarot, psychics, Shakleton expedition, Buddha, FIre Sermon, nursery rhymes, Chaucer, pastiche, allusion, surrealism, life
Places: Falling towers, Jerusalem, Athens, Alexandria, Vienna, London, unreal city.
People: Buddha, Stetson, Madame Sosostris, Mr. Eugenides, Marie, Hieronymo, Ezra Pound.
Time periods: London in the aftermath of the First World War, c 1922.