The poem recalls Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.

这首诗令人想起艾略特的《荒原》。

His village home lay there at the end of the waste land beyond the sugar-cane field.

他的家就在荒地边缘的村庄里，在甘蔗园之后。

It will soon be a waste land.

那很快就会是一个废地了。

There is no waste land here.

这里没有荒芜的土地。

He is puzzled by "The Waste Land".

《荒地》一书使他迷惑不解。