TS Eliot wrote The Waste Land during a trip to Lausanne, Switzerland, to consult a psychologist for what he described as a mild case of nervousness. He sent the manuscript to Ezra Pound for editing assistance. Between them the draft was extensively edited and published in 1922. As a modernist poet, Eliot fought to remove the author's voice from his work, but the work is still a reflection of the author's interpretation. He paints the picture as he sees it for readers to see and interpret from their perspective. The Waste Land could be seen as chronicling Eliot's difficult and not entirely successful journey to confront his own unconscious or spiritual reality. “Viewed psychologically, Eliot's juxtaposition of scenes of sterility, fecundity, and sacrifice represents the speaker's conscious awareness of a sterile society and his abortive attempt to experience the unconscious” (Jones 22). Eliot's depiction of a spiritually empty and lost society is a reflection of his inner search for a life-defining spiritual faith. Eliot's message is that modern man leads a very empty and disconnected existence because he has abandoned his spiritual values ​​in pursuit of material wealth. Eliot begins The Waste Land by lamenting that spring exudes false hope through its evidence of new growth and destroys torpor. and the warmth acquired during winter hibernation from life or feeling. The return of feeling leads to a renewed recognition of the emptiness and sterility of modern life. “What Eliot wants to highlight is the pain of returning to life” (Torrens 24). He expresses the cause of the pain in the description of the stony and barren landscape where there is no shelter and nothing can grow. The spirit of man can... in the center of the paper... the character of his poem after his conversion. Bottum, however, argues that while he perhaps found a personal faith, he was never able to present that faith in his later works. “What we encounter in his late poetry, however, is a profound confusion between faith and the rational understanding of a brilliant and cultured man who needs to have faith” (Bottum 23). Works Cited Bottum, J. "What T. S. Eliot Almost Believed." First things. April 1996. 21-6Eliot, TS “The Waste Land.” The Norton anthology of world masterpieces. 6th edition. Vol 2. Ed. Maynard Mack. New York: Norton, 1992. 1751-64.Jones, Joyce Meeks. Jungian psychology in literary analysis: A demonstration using the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Washington DC: University Press, 1979. Torrens, James S. “T. S. Eliot: 75 Years of 'The Waste Land'.” America. October 25th 1997. 24-7.