"The Waste Land" Part 2

After reading the poem one more time I have come to see that Eliot's intention was to help his readers see how every new beginning, every life begins its journey from a waste land that was left behind by those who are now dead.  From the start of the poem Eliot says, "April is the cruelest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain" (Lines1-4)  When I first looked at these first four lines I thought to myself how ironic it was that the dead were being buried in the spring where everything is supposed to be joyful and full of life, but I never stopped to think that with an example like the first he was trying to also remind us that when Jesus the son of God came to our world to love us and sacrifice his life to save us he to left "The Waste Land" that had become our world.  He left "The Waste Land" to be brought back to life and to be restored by the people left behind.  This poem is very much a way for all of us to see how easy it is to find ourselves in a waste land but to realize that we do have the power to change that land into the beautiful place that we all want and wish it to be.