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The Waste Land
The Waste Land
IL MIGLIOR FABBRO
the original head note that "Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the incidental
symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L Weston"[H] The symbols Eliot employs, in
addition to the Waste Land, include the Fisher King, the Tarot Deck, the Chapel perilous, and
the Grail Quest.