RIASSUNTO ELIOT-THE WASTE LAND:
The reader is invited to analyze the poem and to have an idea of what the writer trying to rappresent with the world waste land. T.S. Eliot is introducing the way he perceives the present world. "The waste land" is dedicated to Ezra Pound. At the beginning the poet quots an extract rom latin and greeek. The second quotation is from Dante: "il miglior fabbro", where he considerates Ezra Pound to be one of the best poet at the time. The athmosphere of the poet is death. The waste land is divided in five section (the first is "the burial pf the dead").
"The burial of the dead":
The burial of the dead stars with a very strong definition: "April is a cruel month". For the frist time  a month that has always been consideredd the month that brings spring life, new born life. Now it considers a cruel month. T.S. Eliot is quoting the "Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer, where April is the "sweetest month". By quoting Chaucer Eliot make a comparison with the style of the Middle  Age which was soft and romantic with the style of his time: sterile and cold.
According to the poet April is cruel because it breeds Lilacs which are the flowers used During burials. This imagine brings us back to the title "the waste land" which is dead. The intelligent reader understand that April rappresent the memory od the past and desire of the new future. T.S. Eliot was strongly influenced by phylophical concepts of the time: Bergson said that the individual is a combination of his past, present and future expectaation. However in the first four section of the waste land, Eliot concentrated on the imagine of the cold and sterile Modern Age. Only in the lst section forsees hope fro the future generation.
In to the following lines the poet describes the land which is dead and the roots are dull. Here the poet is refering to the convention of  poetry where nature was glorified on the contrary in the Modern time nature has not spirit , nature doesn't bring rebirth. Afer the spring he uses a juxtaposition where he refers to winter as a season that keeps people wam. This indeed is a paradox. Winter doesn't keep people warm, the contrary. However  Eliot says that the snow protects the land it keeps it warm. And at the same time we forget our past: "forgetfull winter" this is a personification. Furthermore when the poet uses the words "little life" he rappresents the devastated world after the word. It seems Eliot want to rappresent the seasons in a new way, completaly different from the conventional ideas of nature
“Unreal life”:
The setting ujxtaposed to the previuos one . The scene describes people going to work, the setting is London (the financial district). People are going out of the underground and htey see an unreal city because it is coverd in brown fog. With the word “fog” , a nature element the powt want to rappresent the confusion of the time. By the use of the semantic words “crowd” flow he refers too Dante’ inferno where the crowd is going to bell. With this quotation the reader can understand the way people of Modern time are consider: they are “sinner”. They are spiritually dead , they are not breading but “exhaling”. Again he decids to rappresent the Middle of the time. 
The objective correlative:
It is an innovative technique where Eliot puts in relations two different imagines: “dead land” , “forgetfull snow”, “dry tubers”. With the objective correlative the reader can have a clear idea of the sterility of the land. And then he underlines the sterility and fertility with specific semanthic choices. 
The Mythical Method:
Eliot uses a new method where there is not a cronological order, it doesn’t follow a cause-effect logic. (viene utilizato per la prima volta quando parla di Joyce il quale non ha un ordine cronologico ma fa un parallelismo tra passato, presente e futuro , in Eveline).
The impersonality of the author:
The poet doesn’t express his pesonality and feelings. The poetry has an impersonality writer indeed it is the way the poem is built that gives the identity and emotional and vision of the moment. According to Eliot the past lives in the present , the poet must consider the tradition, he must put in relation the literature of the past with the Modern time in order to create an innovative writing which is universal.