Questions and Answers: Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.The Waste Land is T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem. Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.
THE THEME OF "THE WASTE LAND":
(1) THE POEM NOT ONLY PRESENTS A PANORAMA OF PHYSICAL DISORDER AND SPIRITUAL DESOLATION IN THE MODERN WESTERN WORLD, BUT ALSO REFLECTS THE PREVALENT MOOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESPAIR OF A WHOLE POST-WAR GENERATION.
(2)THE WASTE LAND IS A POEM CONCERNED WITH THE SPIRITUAL BREAKUP OF A MODERN CIVILIZATION IN WHICH HUMAN LIFE HAS LOST ITS MEANING, SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE.
(3)HIS WASTELAND DEROGATION OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD WAS THE PRECISE EXPRESSION OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR. THE HORROR AND MENACE, THE ANGUISH AND DERELICTION, AND THE FUTILITY AND STERILITY EXPRESSED IN HIS POETRY HAD BEEN AFFLICTING ALL SENSITIVE MEMBERS OF THE POSTWAR GENERATION.
THE SIGNIFICANCE ABOUT “THE WASTE LAND”: 
“ THE WASTE LAND” IS T.S.ELIOT’S MASTERPIECE;
(1)THE POEM PRESENTS A PANORAMA OF PHYSICAL DISORDER AND SPIRITUAL DESOLATION;
(2) IT REFLECTS THE MOOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT, FRUSTRATION, AND DESPAIR OF THE WHOLE POST-WAR GENERATION;
(3) IT CONCERNS WITH THE SPIRIT BREAKUP THAT MAN HAS LOST HIS MEANING, SIGNIFICANCE, AND PURPOSE OF LIFE;
(4)THE POEM DEROGATED/CRITICIZED THE CIVILIZED WORLD FOR ITS HORROR, MENACE, ANGUISH AND FUTILITY.
