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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In Modernism, this was somewhat the point - if you couldn't understand the multitude of references or read the bits in dead languages, the poem wasn't intended for ''you''.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was first published not long after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
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* {{Applicability}}: Eliot refrained from giving his own explanation of The Waste Land, saying that a poem's meaning is that which it has for the reader and not the author, and the author is merely one interpreter among many.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was first published not long after WorldWarOne.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was first published not long after WorldWarOne.UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.



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The poem\'s publication date was 1922.


* TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was post a couple of world wars, the Holocaust, and the Great Depression.

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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was post a couple of world wars, the Holocaust, and the Great Depression.first published not long after WorldWarOne.
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* {{Wangst}}: As as the page summary states, "It is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated." That set the tone for pretty much the entire Modernist movement.

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* {{Wangst}}: As as the page summary states, "It is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated." That set the tone for pretty much the entire Modernist movement.
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* NightmareFuel - Rats crawling on the corpses of the Fisher King's relatives.
* TrueArtIsAngsty
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
* {{Wangst}} - "It is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated." thing from the page summary. Set the tone for pretty much the entire Modernist movement.

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* NightmareFuel - NightmareFuel: Rats crawling on the corpses of the Fisher King's relatives.
* TrueArtIsAngsty
TrueArtIsAngsty: Of course, it was post a couple of world wars, the Holocaust, and the Great Depression.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In Modernism, this was somewhat the point - if you couldn't understand the multitude of references or read the bits in dead languages, the poem wasn't intended for ''you''.
* {{Wangst}} - {{Wangst}}: As as the page summary states, "It is mainly about how the world is hopelessly lost and how life cannot be regenerated." thing from the page summary. Set That set the tone for pretty much the entire Modernist movement.

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