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荒原TSEliot the waste land 1a long poem 433lines mainly free verse with occasional snatches of rhyme and with many quoted lines in gernan French Italian and references and allusions to English writers as spenser Shakespeare and Milton.2published 1992 a land mark in English poetry ending romantic period signifying modernism 3divided into 5 parts the burial of the dead a game of chess the first sermon death by the water what the thunder said 4gave a picture of the spiritual ruins in Europe shortly after wwI expressed disillusionment of a generation of intellectuals.symbols taken from ancient m