What do you think about the word "cultured hell"?

On the one hand, the "cultured" in "cultured hell" confirms America's achievements, anticipating the "wonders" and "priceless treasures" at the end of the poem and countering any Eliotic notion of modernity as a cultural wasteland. Yet the "hell" also unambiguously acknowledges that America can be a place of extreme suffering and misery, especially for the disenfrachised.