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5 Various witnesses for what takes place in the Fitzgeraldian “wasteland” : - the narrator - the reader - Doctor Eckleburg… “wasteland” : land where nothing can grow or be built : land that is not usable; an ugly and often ruined place or area; barren or uncultivated land; sth (as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying. Ex. “The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland”; “That part of the country is a cultural wasteland”.

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7 "The Waste Land" (1922) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot
"The Waste Land" (1922) is a long poem written by T.S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry.

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