What is your comment on The Wast

What is your comment on The Waste Land by Eliot in terms of the themes and the mood?
【正确答案】：(1) WITH BOLD TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN VERSIFICATION AND STYLE, THE WASTE LAND NOT ONLY PRESENTS A PANORAMA OF PHYSICAL DISORDER AND SPIRITUAL DESOLATION IN THE MODERN WESTERN WORLD, BUT ALSO REFLECTS THE PREVALENT MOOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT AND DESPAIR OF A WHOLE POST-WAR GENERATION.(2)THE WASTE LAND IS A POEM CONCERNED WITH THE SPIRITUAL BREAKUP OF A MODEM CIVILIZATION IN WHICH HUMAN LIFE HAS LOST ITS MEANING, SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE. THE POEM HAS DEVELOPED A WHOLE SET OF HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEMES; BUT IT IS OFTEN REGARDED AS BEING PRIMARILY A REFLECTION OF THE 20TH-CENTURY PEOPLE'S DISILLUSIONMENT AND FRUSTRATION IN A STERILE AND FUTILE SOCIETY. THE HORROR AND MENACE， THE ANGUISH AND DERELICTION, AND THE FUTILITY AND STERILITY EXPRESSED IN HIS POETRY HAD BEEN AFFLICTING ALL SENSITIVE MEMBERS OF THE POSTWAR GENERATION.
【题目解析】：教材359第二段及360第二段。本题从主题和心情两方面考查对艾略特的《荒原》的评论。《荒原》不仅全面展现了现代西方社会物质上的错乱和精神上的颓败，而且反映出战后一代人中盛行的幻灭与绝望。这首诗的主题是表现现代文明中人们精神的堕落与崩溃，人生已失去了意义与目的。尽管诗作也涉及历史、文化及宗教问题，但人们通常认为它主要反映了20世纪在一个无聊、无意义的社会里人类的幻灭与挫折。