<P> Many of the themes within `` Gerontion '' are present throughout Eliot 's later works , especially within The Waste Land . This is especially true of the internal struggle within the poem and the narrator 's `` waiting for rain '' . Time is also altered by allowing past and present to be superimposed , and a series of places and characters connected to various cultures are introduced . </P>
<P> Many of the themes within `` Gerontion '' are present throughout Eliot 's later works , especially within The Waste Land . This is especially true of the internal struggle within the poem and the narrator 's `` waiting for rain '' . Time is also altered by allowing past and present to be superimposed , and a series of places and characters connected to various cultures are introduced . </P>
what does the narrator say he is waiting for in the first lines of gerontion
what does the narrator say he is waiting for in the first lines of gerontion
`` waiting for rain ''
`` waiting for rain ''