COMPREHENSION

1) First theme: the journey of Christ's disciples to Emmanus : "Who is the third
who walks always beside you?".

Second theme the approach to the chapel Perilous: "There is the empty chapel, only the
wind's home".

Third theme, decay of Europe: "London Bridge is falling".

2)stony places, no water only rock, dry, mountains of rock, sterile thunder.

INTERPRETETION

1) the thunder's advice is to give alms, to have compassion, to practise self-control.

2) for "these fragments" Eliot meant all the inter-textual quotations he
used to structurate the poem.

3) the final message is that everything is cracking.

4) i found hard to understand this poem.

5) obscurity is caused by the several use of intertextuality.

6) she underlines his ability to use intertextuality.

7) all them are looking for a centre in a fragmented world.