There comes a further memory and the protagonist is suddenly in a confused state of mind. He feels not living nor dead looking for a regeneration or for a death, like the waste land. Then Eliot describes the silence “the heart of light”. Silence seems to become the light to regenerate ourselves. It is a paradox because silence involves a paralysis and a regeneration needs an important change in our life. The German statement means “black and empty, the sea”. It is such an explanation of what the waste land is, but applied to the symbol of fertility: the water.

Madame Sosostris wants to make fun of the prophetic visions that succeed in the history. All the prophecies of Madame Sosostris become real and the figures that succeed in the paragraph have their meaning. The Belladonna/Lady of the Rocks/The lady of situations represents the enigmatic side of Da Vinci’s Monna Lisa. The man with three staves represents the Fisher King. The Wheel is the Wheel of time and represents Eliot’s timeless perception of history. The one-eyed merchant refers to the figure of the Jack. The Hanged Man means that a man is looking for the real nature of life and if she doesn’t find the card, he is paralyzed.

In the last paragraph the messy and confused crowd of man is used as an image for Acheron, the infernal river. It is an horrible image because the protagonist sees the world full of sinners and they will all die. Then he stops a person he knew called Stetson and he asked him if the corpse he planted last year had began to sprout. This is also an horrible image because Mr Stetson buried a man in his garden and the protagonist asked him if it had sprout. The bloom represents also the regeneration of a waste land, but only form one death’s body. The Dog of the 74^th line is Cerberus. Cerberus has three heads and they represent the destruction of the past, of the present and of the future. Cerberus was called also something like “The waste land” in the ancient times because everything seemed to be devoured by the earth. The French statement means that the reader of the poem is like the protagonist and as a consequence it means that everyone is mortal.