T.S Elliot " The Wasteland"

Question

Harlan Ellison once said something to the effect of "I was surprised that a poem could move me so deeply, without actually understanding it. I felt the same way, and then upon multiple readings, I decided it was a fragmented view of the world seen through the eyes of man having a nervous breakdown. What do you think?

Answer 1

I have always been the strawberry girl.

Answer 2

It's actually a Modernist view of the world, with some of Eliot's complex  ascetic religious thought mixed in.

"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock", on the other hand, is more like a nervous and spiritual breakdown.