The Waste Land Parts One and Two

At the part where refers to the sun of man and places where there is no relief or shelter this part seems very hopeless and depressing because of the suffering that lack of shelter or shade brings to one person. The First section is called "The Burial Of the Dead" and it has a very ominous and negative tone. I think it is strange how the author decides to talk about the main character in first person and also the fact that she is a young girl is unexpected since the author is a man. I wonder why he would make a shift in gender and age for this section of the poem. Later on the girl in the poem is talking to some one as "you" and I wonder who that could be, she says, "your arms full, your hair wet..." and maybe it is some one that is very important to her and guides her just like the references to time guide the reader through this poem. I don't understand why Eliot uses German and Dutch in the poem especially since there is a high chance that the reader will not understand why he is saying. It may be just a random quote but it could also be relevant to the theme of the section.

Like I stated before I find that the tarot cards are significant to this section because of the fact that they predict and try to decipher the future. This is always a sharp reminder that we are not in control of our fate and that we need to watch our actions. Throughout the poem it seems as though all the people mentioned are very restless and as I mentioned before this could be associated with the title of the poem. I find this frustrating because all the inactivity and lethargy is not expected. Most stories are made up of action so lack of it definitely adds a different idea to the poem. The only literal reference to "the Burial of the Dead" is in the last few lines:
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
I think that this means that you should a guilt free conscience so that you will not have any skeletons in the closet that can come back and haunt you!

The second section "A Game Of Chess" is very full of description and color but is very misleading because it does not seem to focus on any main ideas. The first part seems to play with the senses because not only is there visual description but smells and sounds too, to involve the reader in the author's world. As I had mentioned before, the game of chess in this section is not the real board game but rather the game of life where you lose and gain according to wit and that you have to be clever to survive and be successful in this world. This section tells of people that have almost experienced death which shows their strength but also tells the reader that they have to be cautious and that sometimes a win or loss is pure luck.