Wasteland

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From Middle English west londe, weste londe(“wasteland”), reanalysed in Modern English as waste +‎ land.


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wasteland (n.)

1825 as one word, from waste (adj.) + land (n.). Figurative sense is attested from 1868. Eliot's poem is from 1922.

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

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