In the eighth line of the section "The Burial of the Dead", there is a change of scene, a juxtaposition of a new scene. After the opening scene, there is a new setting, near Munich in a famous lake (in 1887 King Ludwig II had drown and so the lake became the symbolical meaning of death by water). The idea of death by water is also connected to a quotation from "Tristan and Isotta" that the reader will come across in lines 31-32, where the text hints at the figure of a king who like the fisher king of the Graal legend.

There is an atmosphere of impending death which is also clearly introduced by the title of the first section (the burial of the dead is a name of a religious service which is celebrated when somebody die). The intelligent reader understands right from the start that the dramatic monologue works on the opposition of sterility and fertility, life and death and takes into consideration a possibility of RIGENERATION. Line eight displays the verb "surprised us".

The second scene is setting summer and it is a record of memory where two young people coating by the rain take shelter under a colonnade. And when the sun take out again, they went to the public garden (Hofgarten). Then comes the German line. There is a further memory, a memory of childhood when the speaking voice with her cousin are hosted by the archduke, and she remembers when she was on a sled and was afraid.

Going on there is the last line of the scene where the speaking voice says that the aristocracy go south in the winter. The juxtaposition of scenes is kept together by a general atmosphere that seems to be the same. The next scene is again a scene of sterility; we have the idea of nature again (roots, branches). The lines also recall the Bible. In the Bible T. S. Eliot finds a very fertile container of symbols and images. Water and rock are the principal objective correlative.