This document provides a summary of the major scenes in T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land". It analyzes the five sections of the poem: 1) The Burial of the Dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water, and 5) What the Thunder Said. Key excerpts from each section are presented in both their original language and an English translation. The document was submitted by a student as part of their coursework on American literature.