Eliot has created a collage of the world in this poem. He has taken various scenes from different classes of people and how are living their lives after WWI. Explain.

The title of the poem is a barely-veiled allusion to the mass destruction of the Great War: the poem itself, a metaphor for the carnage of post-war Europe.It is a mechanised post-war world where modern London life feels soulless and fixed on gratification both material and sexual:

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Elliot notes a change in people after this war. It is a mechanised post-war world where modern London life feels soulless and fixed on gratification both material and sexual. The massive factories and industial coal smoke seem to mimic the monster that was once WW1. People become a crowd of faceless workers instead of individuals.