Wasteland part 2!

Well it turns out that I was somewhat on the right track about this poem. When considering fragmentations and after listening to the poem in class, it is clear that there was different characters speaking in this poem. It is also clear that this poem is very much so about death. We talked in class about possiblities along the lines of death and I personally think that this poem is indeed talking about society after the war. War is a very devistating and disasterful event. Of course there was death in large numbers and devistation everywhere. I think that Eliot was trying to take one perspective or one story but use the different charecters to express different feeling. My favorite part of this poem is all the anologies to the bible and Jesus Christ. It shows that in even the worst of times, even in war, there is hope through faith and the lord. I think Eliot does a wonderful job at making a reader envision these biblical references and also giving the sence of a happy ending. I can see why this poem made it so famous. Obviously war topics generally make it in the spot light but Eliot took it into the modernist view and was bold enough to bring faith and hope into the picture. After the class discussion of this poem I have begun to understand this poem much more and hope that tomorrows class period will make me even more familiar.