Waste Land, The

noun

1. a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.

“The Waste Land”

1. (1922) A poem by T. S. Eliot. Its subject is the fragmented and sterile nature of the modern world, particularly the world after World War I.

Example Sentences

Waste Land is the title of my new book, which is based on the great modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” published in 1922.

From Salon

Eliot’s “The Waste Land” in their basement, among others.

From Seattle Times

Oppenheimer reads “The Waste Land” and looks at modernist painting.

From Washington Times

Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” drops a needle on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and stands before a Picasso painting, defining works of an age in which physics folded space and time into space-time.

From New York Times

Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” — was an instant sensation, entering the American lexicon and setting off an avalanche of headlines, editorials, cartoons and letters to the editor, and a national debate over the viewing habits of adults and children.

From New York Times