Depict the life of the Waste Landers NU The people living in T S Eliot s - poem The Waste Land are called the Waste Landers Their lives show emptiness despair and loss of meaning They appear like shadows cut off from love faith and hope Eliot uses their life to reflect the spiritual death of the modern world Spiritually Dead The Waste Landers are spiritually barren Eliot writes of a heap of broken images where the sun beats They walk like ghosts over London Bridge They have no faith no vision and no light Loveless and Mechanical Their relationships are devoid of emotion In A Game of Chess Lil suffers in her broken marriage In The Fire Sermon the meeting of the clerk and typist is cold and mechanical Love has turned into empty desire About this the poet says The typist home at teatime clears her breakfast lights