Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land.

Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land.
【正确答案】：T. S. Eliot was an American-born British poet and won various awards, including the Nobel
Prize and Order of Merit in 1948. His major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a verse drama to express the ideas and action of modern society with new accents of the contemporary speech. The Waste Land is Eliot's most important single poem. It has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry. It presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, and reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.