The Waste Land

What are the motifs in The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot?

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recurring ideas are restoration or rebirth: the opposite of disillusionment. If modern society can somehow overcome its disillusionment, it will be restored back to a state in which life once again has meaning. This refers to the Fisher King myth from Weston's book. Yet throughout the poem, when this idea is referred to, it is generally handled in more subtle ways than the references that underscore the idea of disillusionment.