Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot's most important single poem. Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.
【正确答案】：A.With bold technical innovations in versification and style, the poem 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 postwar generation.
B.The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern 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. (p359)
