Part V: What the Thunder Said | The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

An installation from “T. S. Eliot: A Game of Chess,” an exhibition at the World Chess Hall of Fame that ran from May 17, 2023 to March 24, 2024.
“The Waste Land” is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine “The Criterion” and in the United States in the November issue of “The Dial.” Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month", "I will show you fear in a handful of dust", and "These fragments I have shored against my ruins".