The Waste Land

What the overall tone in the "Burial of the Dead" by T.S. Eliot?

Poem: The Waste Land

Section I: Burial of the Dead

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The overall tone of the poem is unhappy/futile. There is a sense of rotting, death, and decay to the poem that is unworthy of being saved.

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