1. What do you aspect from the title?

Reading the title the reader thinks the poem is about a land. The first reader’s question may be: why this land is characterized as waste?

The adjective waste means uninhabited or uncultivated,  so the setting created  is a desert one. The intelligent reader understands the title “waste land” not only is a description of a place, but it translates the loneliness and the hopeless of the speaking voice.

2. What kind of structure has the poem?

The poem is composed by five section: The burial of the dead, A game of chess, The fire sermon, Death by water and What the thunder said.