The adjective waste suggests to the reader the idea of something that is not fertile; something that is sterile. The poet refers to a sterile land, which doesn't give products.

The ephigraph starts with a quotation from Petroniu's Satyricon,where is the cumaean sybil, a character of Greek mythology. She asked for immortality to Apollo but she didn't ask for eternal youth so se became more and more old.

He dedicates the epigraph to his friend Ezra Pound, because he gave Eliot the suggestion to create a new form of poetry.

Now I'm going to analyze "The Burial Of The Dead".

Just from the title Eliot wants to suggests us an idea of dead.In the first line he calls April "cruellest month", but generally April is associated to spring and regeneration.

Here is a quotation from Chaucer Canterbury Tales, and creates an idea of sterility.

From the sixth line the poet want to suggest us an idea of desolation and creates a ghoustly atmosphere with the people who go every morning at work. People have no identity and Eliot makes a quotation from Dante's Inferno ,where souls go to death; they don't look into each other eyes.

The poet provides us a reference to reality: the presence of places like St Mary Woolnoth.