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By Alex Edmiston - April 20, 2006

The work of T. S. Eliot frequently presents society as degenerate and infertile. The deterioration of the post-war world is represented through the oppression and suffering of women - a concept explored most notably in Eliot's 1922 work The Waste Land, but also in a number of his other poems. Eliot uses anonymous characters and allusion - a…

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