The withered wasteland symbolizes the hope of the resurrection of the vulgar and ugly people who are still alive. As a main line, the cold and hazy picture that runs through the whole poem profoundly shows the true face of western society, full of people's desire to cross, spiritual degradation, moral decay, despicable and ugly life, conveys Westerners' disgust, general disappointment and disillusionment with the world and reality after World War I, and shows the mental illness and spiritual crisis of a generation, thus denying the modern West.
Meanwhile. Poetry attributed the decline of western society to human's "original sin" and regarded the restoration of religious spirit as saving the western world. The panacea for saving modern people reflects Eliot's conservative and reactionary thoughts.
Thomas stearns Eliot (1888- 1965) is a famous English modernist poet and literary critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
His ancestors were shoemakers in Donkey, Somerset, England, and moved to Boston, USA in 1670. His grandfather moved to St. Louis and founded the President of Washington University 1872. My father is a businessman and my mother Charlotte stearns is a poet.
His family has always maintained the tradition of Calvinism in New England. 1908 began to create.