Using the website listed below, read the analyses of your section of T.S. Eliot's poem, The Wasteland, and prepare to teach the section of the poem to the class. Eliot draws from many sources in creating this poem. Your task is to unravel some of the source material and try and get at what Eliot seems to be saying to us. For example, if he alludes to a source from one of Shakespeare's plays, find out what that play was about and try and make an guess as to why he chose to use it in his poem.

hypertext version of poem