The Waste Land" has been considered T. S. Eliot's great poem and masterpiece. It contains main five sections where he gets deep into themes of war, trauma, disillusionment, and death, discussing the devastating aftereffects and impacts of World War I. The poem has final line that calls for peace where he repeats "shantih" representing the word"peace".
- Part I of the poem opens with the common line, "April is the cruellest month." on the tongue of Marie who is a young woman bears witness to the physical and emotional devastation caused by the war.
- Parts II and III represents wealthy woman's bedroom inside and the garbage-filled waters of the Thames, respectively. Part IV eulogizes a drowned man named Phlebas.
- In the fifth and final part of the poem, the speaker makes translation for the thunderclaps cracking over an Indian jungle. The poem in the end includes repetition of the Sanskrit word for peace: "Shantih shantih shantih."
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