Joseph Scarpelli T.S. Eliot wrote about times that were vacant and wasteful, which society had brought upon itself. In his poem titled Preludes, Eliot’s perception of modern civilization is of total destruction of all morality due to the lust, materialism, and ungodly actions that man has inflicted upon the world. It is no longer time when people seek knowledge and love one another, but rather a place that was turned upside-down and its …showed first 75 words of 422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 422 total…just talk about Michelangelo but instead are having an artificial conversation to impress one another. In “The Wasteland,” the luxuries of the woman in her beauty room are extravagant but one is not jealous of her for she seems conceited and fake. Eliot shuns society for what it has become. People walk around trying to impress one another, but instead they do impress no one because they have lost everything that has made them good.