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The emotional evocation of The Waste Land, of course, depends largely on the references and allusions it uses.  For those well-versed in the western literary tradition, the connotations of each phrase and expression may be meaningful, but for the uninitiated, the meaning runs the risk of being obscured.  

At first glance, the scattered images of a hundred different perspectives and interpretations drawn from The Waste Land can seem hopeless; some  are so constrained to one-to-one interpretation of symbolisms that they seem hackneyed, others come across as so all-encompassing as to say nothing, and still others tend to be emotionally moving but stubbornly unstated and uninterpreted.  Looking at the collection as a whole, however, it takes on a different sort of life.  Just as The Waste Land contains the limited, often blatantly erroneous perspectives of many different perspectives, personalities, and opinions, melding them all into a sort of loose whole, the derivative work that surrounds it begins slowly to have a similar effect.  

It is here that the idea of the palimpsest comes into play.  The Waste Land, with its collection of fragmented vignettes, easily emulates the written, scraped, and rewritten parchment of a palimpsest.  While the derivative works accessible today are, for the most part, quite whole, they still manage to evoke a similar sense of fragmentation due to the sheer volume of material that renders the reader's grasp extremely limited in comparison.  In today's Web 2.0 culture, oversaturated with information that is, more often than not, written off with a "tl;dr" (too long; didn't read) or a demand for SparkNotes, the overload tends to leave many people with a collection of bits and pieces that comprise an overall sense of the whole.  Rather than following a logical progression, they are superimposed over one another like the various layers of a palimpsest, with only the boldest segments standing out.  As a result, it is not necessarily the primary pieces of each "conversation" that comprise the overall meaning; rather, that which is most impactful ends up playing the primary role in the end.

Considering T.S. Eliot's theory of the objective correlative, this raises the question of whether his intent concerning the emotional impact of the poem even comes through.  To the layman who lacks the background of literary tradition necessary to decipher the layers of The Waste Land, for whom derivative works and multimedia play an even larger role in the interpretation of the poem, this question becomes even more relevant.  

One work that stands out as particularly interpretive is [http://youtu.be/6TCZsJV4V5A The Waste Land (The Burial of the Dead)], by Milad and Isabella.  The video claims its own point of view on the poem even in direct defiance to Eliot's intent, saying, "It's all based on short episodes and fragmentations that represent the fall of Europe, despite the fact that T.S. Eliot himself denies this interpretation."  The video continues with a quick, loose breakdown of the first section, "The Burial of the Dead," stating one-to-one correlations between given symbols and their interpretations that are, quite frankly, rather pedantic and reductive.  What follows is a collection of images and clips--at times appropriately surrealist, and at others running rather close to literal depictions of the poem's subject matter.  The overall impression that results is one of restriction, of right and wrong answers with nothing in between.


==Images==
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Images]]''</blockquote>

===Derivative Imagery===
[http://www.landwater-research.co.uk/lw.php?pg=sally-waterman Sally Waterman's "Visualising The Waste Land: Discovering a praxis of adaptation"]

[[Analysis of Sally Waterman's "Visualising The Waste Land: Discovering a praxis of adaptation"]]

===External Links===
[http://visualandcriticalstudies.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/the-waste-land.jpg A Visual Guide to References in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land]

==Audio==
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Audio]]''</blockquote>
[[Waste Land Readings]]

==Video==
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Video]]''</blockquote>
<!-- ===Readings===
[http://youtu.be/337LhGHuqz8 Fiona Shaw Reads from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land]

[http://youtu.be/9OK31j2Lcsc T.S. Eliot - My Nerves are Bad Tonight - Fiona Shaw]

[http://youtu.be/5f3eMTWukKw Fiona Shaw - Clairvoyant section from 'The Waste Land']

===The Waste Land App===
[http://youtu.be/rlhosnfP-Jw A walk Through The Waste Land]

===Music===
====That Mysterious Rag====
[http://youtu.be/TpXlPlRqFPA "That Mysterious Rag" Sung by Harry Fay]

[http://youtu.be/zun42eEdYKY That Mysterious Rag by Arthur Collins (Aug. 1911)]

[http://youtu.be/yX08Q74fxI4  That Mysterious Rag - WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ]

===Art Inspired by the Waste Land===
[http://youtu.be/tYjNftwwrNM  The Waste Land - Fine Art Photography]

[http://youtu.be/Dge9OZxexio  T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland / Joy Division]
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==Articles==
[https://jacket2.org/category/commentary-tags/t-s-eliot "The Waste Land 'Seen' (1999) comes to the iPad (2012)]

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/30/eliot-waste-land-multimedia-walk TS Eliot's The Waste Land 2012 - A Multimedia Walk]

==External Links==
[http://aimee-wang.com/comics.html#wasteland Aimee Wang's The Waste Land Comic]

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hlb38 BBC Radio: The Wasteland and Modernity]

[http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/explore.html Exploring The Waste Land]

[http://www.landwater-research.co.uk/lw.php?pg=sally-waterman Visualising The Waste Land: Discovering a praxis of adaptation]

[http://books.google.com/books?id=SCfHnLwWg2MC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=%22Hamlet+and+His+Problems%22&source=web&ots=cq01aXo2KC&sig=gkcaDTGsWPk-1C-vh1f0MNMGRa4&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays]