What is your comment on The Waste Land by Eliot in terms of the themes and the mood?
(1) WITH BOLD TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN VERSIFICATION AND STYLE, THE WASTE LAND 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 MODEM CIVILIZATION IN WHICH HUMAN LIFE HAS LOST ITS MEANING, SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE. THE POEM HAS DEVELOPED A WHOLE SET OF HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEMES; BUT IT IS OFTEN REGARDED AS BEING PRIMARILY A REFLECTION OF THE 20TH-CENTURY PEOPLE'S DISILLUSIONMENT AND FRUSTRATION IN A STERILE AND FUTILE SOCIETY. 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.
