... in a handful of dust." Assignment Discuss how this­­ passage presents the decline of humanity and spirituality, to an infertile and banal existence in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Response Immediately, the epigraph emulates Eliot's view of the withering world through his referral to the Satyricon; the Sibyl of Cumae was once a beautiful woman, who was granted near immortality but had forgotten to ... ...

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