"Wasteland Tie Together"

Wasteland really seemed like quite a few different poems sort of put together to create a "wasteland." After discussing this in class and learning more on T.S. Eliot I was able to derive a few ideas of my own. I see a lot of death in Wasteland and I see how it ties a lot of things together. One specific point that was extremely interesting was how Tiresias was tied into other areas of the work. From Part Three " I Tiresias though blind, throbbing, between two lives, Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see at the violet hour the evening hour that strives Homeward and brings the sailor home from the sea." From Part Four " Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss." A Phoenician was a sailor that used the sea in order to transport a certain purple cloth now I see the relation between the profit and loss of the phoenician and the profit and loss of Tiresias. All in all the ending result was death.
The goal in life is to live long enough to die. I see these in all parts of this work. No matter what the path death is always the ending goal. T.S. Eliot included many things and it is so interesting to see him use history and knowledge to tell his stories. I also see a lot of "death by water". I can also link this to maybe a feeling of being overwhelmed or even giving up and letting death take over. Because when death arrives everyone must give up at some point and let go in order to die. I think Wasteland is sort of a middle grey area between what some people consider heaven and hell. Wasteland is everything in between.