The article sets out on analysis of the relationship between heteroglossia and authońal voice in Eliot's
"The Waste Land". The many-voicedness of the poem is build up on the basis of separate "heaps of broken
images", overheard in solitude in eternity. Structurally, the poem is not a narrative as conventionally conceived,
but evidently presents a bewildering sequence of the speech acts. Eliot skillfully integrates them into
the fused continuum by means of the "uniting voice".