【正确答案】正确答案：The Waste Land (1922) is a 434 line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." The poem presents a series of conversations or scenes that lead through the wasteland to a moment of hope, the expectation of rain, at the end. The sections are numbered to indicate shifts of scene and speaker. And despite the obscurity of the poem—its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures, it is a masterpiece in the works of modernists.