Was T.S. Eliot trying to speak in parables as I did to my followers? If so, his meaning is much harder to grasp. Maybe I should give him some pointers. I think his poem "The Waste Land" is about just that, the Wasteland narrative that is the foundation of many Grail texts. Eliot was a modernist that felt frantic and hopeless in a violent and fragmented post-WWI world. The metaphor of a wasted land would obviously be appealing to him. He used the Wasteland imagery for that purpose, and not to quest for an elusive Grail of any kind. The Grail is hope, and Eliot's poem is, in essence, a hopeless message.