T.S. Eliot

When I began reading T.S. Eliot it certainly made me think more then I have been doing in the past with the poems. This poem was written in 1922 after WWI and references to WWI quite a bit. The poem, to me, is very confusing and I kept reading over and over again to even make sense of some sections.
The Waste Land is very dark, depressing, has information overload but yet very historic. The deeper I dug into the poem the more I began to make sense of it. The first section of the poem is titled the "The Burial of the Dead", sounds great? NOT. I thought to myself why would I want to read something that is titled that way. The title threw me off and the poem is nothing what you expect it to be. Eliot is talking about more then just literarily burying the dead. He is talking about the seasons dying. Summer is great but then fall comes around and everything dies. Also in the first section he says, "I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter." Made me think of how the birds migrate south in the winter for the warm weather. Maybe the world which he is living in "dies" so to speak because all of this.
This poem speaks about many different things, and has a lot of different speakers through out. For example (I'll just stick with "The Burial of the Dead") Section 1 has four subsections and each section seems to have a different speaker. How do I know this? Well in the first one he plain out tells us its Marie, in the other ones he makes references and sort of points out who the main speaker is. Like the ghost in the fourth subsection.
The poem it self through is very depressing. He seems unhappy. WWI probably had a great influence on that. At least I would say so. Through out the war 15 million people were killed. Good reason to be upset I’d say. I think he felt very betrayed, nothing was the same and a lot of people had to start over with their lives. Kind of interesting how he named the poem “The Waste Land” like everything is just wasted.
Very confusing and a hard poem to read but with a lot of help from the footnotes and some research online I have began to sort of understand it. Although I don’t think I will be reading it for fun any time soon.