The Wasteland: The Burial For The Dead

"The Wasteland" is a difficult (highly academic) poem, but I think you can get the general idea and mood of it. Click here to listen to (and read along with) Eliot's reading of the first section, "The Burial of the Dead." Then pick ANY section of the poem and tell us what it says, what it describes, and the mood it conveys. Remember that this is a primary document in literary modernism.

“The Burial For the Dead” I feel isn’t as much about burial as it is about death and the disturbance of such a state, maybe something like resurrection. The first lines “April is the cruelest month, breeding//Lilacs out of the dead land” illustrates this thinking well. The spring is breathing life into the dead land, but no one has said this dead land wants for it. “Winter kept us warm, covering//Earth in forgetful snow” The speaker preferred the state of death to the state of life that the spring time is known to bring about. The speaker had good memories from this season, like drinking coffee and chatting for an hour and staying with their cousin and sledding. The images he presents also associate with death, but the one that rings clearly to me in the end in relation to death and resurrection is when he asks Stetson, “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?”

Very clever quoting here on the death/ressurection theme you see (and it's there, but see the end of the poem--not a simply Christian take on this): I chuckled at your use if the last lines.
However, aren't there several different speakers here? And what does the poem say about modern life and society?