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Throughout the first section of the poem, Eliot presents the reader with image upon ‘broken’ image of dryness, shallowness and unreality. We see the “dry stone no sound of water”, the “handful of dust” and the “Unreal City/ under the brown fog of a winter dawn” (Eliot, 1989, pp.61-62) all of which point to an arid landscape devoid of a spiritual centre.
However, it is made clear through Eliot’s use of heterogeneous cultural references that, unlike, Conrad, what concerns him is not so much the specific failure of Judeo-Christian faith but faith in general. Throughout the poem, Eliot visits and revisits all manner of belief systems – Buddhism in ‘The Fire Sermon’, Christianity in ‘What the Thunder Said’ (through references to ‘the Rock’, an image he was to take up, of course, later on in his life after his conversion), Greek pantheism, pagan ritual and so on – and finds none of them able to give life or meaning to post-War Europe...
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