The poem is preceded by a verse from _The Satyricon_ by Petronius, translated as ""I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in her cage, and when the boys said, Sibyl, what do you want?
The poem is preceded by a verse from _The Satyricon_ by Petronius, translated as ""I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in her cage, and when the boys said, Sibyl, what do you want? she replied I want to die." This epigraph is followed by five sections of the poem, entitled "The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon," "Death by Water," and "What the Thunder Said." For ten points, name this famous modernist work about the decline of civilization and the impossibility of finding meaning and life, the most famous by T.S. Eliot.
The poem is preceded by a verse from _The Satyricon_ by Petronius, translated as ""I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in her cage, and when the boys said, Sibyl, what do you want?
{The Waste Land}