According to Wikipedia, 'The Waste Land is a 434-line Modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called 'one of the most important poems of the 20th century.' Despite the poem's obscurity-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrase ...