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T. S. Eliot - Coggle Diagram

- - - - At the beginning there's a provocative sentence: April is the "cruellest month,"
        subverting its association with rebirth, as it brings only pain, unlike the benevolent oblivion of winter.
        
        Recurring themes of death and rebirth, with the image of corpses sprouting, suggesting a life without purpose.
        
        Fragmentation and disillusionment.
        
        Voices reflecting the post-World War I chaos.
        
        The memory of a Lilac Garden and Countess Marie, who recalls an idyllic past, evoke nostalgia and a sense of exile.
        
        The figure of Madame Sosostris, a fortune-teller, symbolizes degraded spirituality and the inability to foresee the future in a disordered world.
        
        At the end there's a description of London as an "Unreal City" full of aimless souls and a
        dialogue about Stetson and the War.
        
        Theme: desolation of the modern metropolis and the trauma of conflict.
        
        The reader is involved in the poem's moral desolation.