A wicked pack of cards - cultural allusions and intertextuality in 'The wasteland'
Keys that unlock the poem, mystifying puzzles to obscure meaning, or the source of a rich array of interpretations? The allusions in 'The wasteland' may be too numerous and obscure to understand in full but, as the author suggests, finding out more about them and how they work takes you right to the heart of Eliot's themes and purposes.