T.S. Eliot

Today as you know, we are reading about T.S. Elliot, but I would like to speak about his poem "Journey of the Magi". This poem has 3 stanzas and is 43 lines long. There  is a lot of anaphora used through out all the stanzas mostly using the words "the" and "and". Ploce is also used greatly through out this poem for example on lines 33 and 34. When I read this poem, I think of  myself being with them on this jouney a long, long time ago. I think that the narrarator is obviously someone that is on the journey and the audience is the person taking the time to read this poem and hear about this story. I believe that this was clearlly meant to give you the feel of either the egyptian times or possibly the bible times where a group would travel to a far land to see a god or go to a palace. It talks about camels in line 6 which plaes me in these two time eras. Through out the poem it keeps reminging the reader how harsh the times were and goes on to talk about the snow which now tells me that it can't possibly be egyptian. I now go on to think that this group or person is trying to get to god. In line 23 it talks about how they came upon a valley that smelt of vegitation. This reminds me of versus from the bible that I have read, eg: the garden of Adam and Eve. Line 31 state as follow, "Finding the place; (you may say) satisfactory.". Does this not sound a lot like the bible and how peaceful and beautiful the kingdom was. Line 42 is where things seem to change. It talks about how the "alien people clutched onto their gods" as if they were disgusted by how wraped up the people were with gods. So what is this poem? Am I taking this to be too much like the bible? It is possible that this is just some fiction story that Eliot came up with from that mind of his. But what is this poem really about?