Eliot's The Waste Land, published in 1922, symbolizes that there is no water in the world, so it dries up and tends to be destroyed. It is a milestone of modern poetry: the tent by the river is fragmented, and finally the finger-like leaves cling to the wet river bank, and the wind blows up this brown land, which is unheard of ... In the cave that has fallen in the mountain, the grass sings on the collapsed grave in the pale moonlight, and the church is empty, only the wind passes through.