What's the difference between wasteland and traditional poetry?

The difference between Eliot's The Waste Land and traditional poetry is mainly reflected in its modernity: (1) a large number of allusions and fairy tales are quoted, with rich images. The poem is interspersed with six languages, and the myths and allusions cited include 56 works by 35 writers in the East and the West.

(2) Using the montage technique, seemingly unrelated scenes such as myths, religions and allusions are wonderfully spliced with the life fragments of modern cities. * * * together, into a symbol structure centered on the wasteland, expressing some kind of center and relationship.

(3) Crossing the boundaries of time and space, time has no boundaries, and space has no boundaries.

(4) The image is novel and grotesque, and the language is complex and changeable. There are spoken, written, archaic, vernacular and foreign languages in the wasteland. The combination of elegance and vulgarity. (5) The Waste Land is neither a lyric poem nor a narrative poem. At that time, it created a new poetic style.