According to what we have discussed and my own thoughts, in this poem the author is depicting the miseries of modern culture and how it has been cheapen by human beings unconsciousness. Therefore, he chooses to name this social mess as 'The waste land': a place, a state, a feeling, an atmosphere, where nothing is expected but at the same time; uncertainty is in the air. An unreal and fictitious city in which there is no shelter for whom need it or ask for it; no relief for the ones who feel pain.
For me 'The waste land' is not the depiction of an empty place, on the contrary, it is a place which is full of 'everything' (people, machines, weapons, money, poverty, and so on) thus it lacks relief, shelter and calm. In other words, modern culture (even us) lacks truth.
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