emptiness of human relations Here is a quotation to support the point My nerves are bad tonight Yes bad Stay with me Speak to me Why do you never speak The Fire Sermon This is the third section Tiresias the blind prophet narrates this part He watches a cheap sexual meeting between a clerk and a typist About this the poet says The typist home at teatime clears her breakfast lights Her stove and lays out food in tins The Thames River is polluted This section shows corruption and lust Death by Water This is the fourth section It is very short It tells of Phlebas a drowned sailor He forgets youth profit and loss His death shows the cycle of decay and rebirth The following lines describe this point Phlebas the Phoenician a fortnight dead Forgot the cry of gulls and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss What The Thunder Said This is the fifth and last section It presents apocalyptic images of death and destruction Water is absent and life is barren But at the end thunder speaks the three words Datta Dayadhvam Damyata The poem ends with Shantih shantih shantih In short the poem consists of five sections each depicting different aspects of the wasteland They reveal sterility lust despair and faint hope Eliot uses these divisions to portray the broken spirit of the modern age