This was my first time to read The Wasteland. In reading other blog posts about it, it seems as though it may not be uncommon to have a difficult time understanding and fully grasping the piece. I thought his use of quotations was definitely indicative of it being a modernist piece, but also thought it contributed to the desolate anxiety of it as well. The repetitive use of "hurry up its time" and abrupt switches between strange characters somewhat illustrated maybe the emotion or feeling of the war. 

The choppy text and characters, as well as the lines he drew to Shakespeare and the Bible seemed to definitely make the piece about western culture, and his discussion of tarot cards and repetitive use of "hurry up its time" created a foreboding feeling that seemed to highlight the emptiness, desolation, and anxiety of a post war world. He's describing a wasteland barren of men who can start a new generation, with deep scars and scared eyes anxiously looking around at a destroyed world.