Eliot's Use of Different Speakers in The Waste LandDifferent speakers in "The Waste Land" reflect the disjointed nature of modern experience by presenting different points of view that the reader is obliged to gather for himself. This is similar to dissociation in modern life in that life has ceased to be a unified whole: various aspects of 20th century life – various academic disciplines, theory and practice, church and state, and "dissociation of Eliot's sensibilities, or separation of heart and mind - have become separated from each other, and a person living in that era is forced to press these fragments against its ruins, to borrow the Eliot's expression, to see the image of an integrated whole. the speakers not only present different points of view, but also reflect different aspects of the modern cultural experience. This presents not only a set of varied points of view, but also a kind of anthropological description of post-World War II Europe. For example, Eliot gives an image of the uprooting experienced by many Europeans online...