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“ by Robert Frost and drank coffee and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. (11-12) This clearly shows that Eliot's poem is fragmented because the translation is about a woman who is not Russian from Lithuania but German. Eliot goes from casually drinking coffee to speaking German so as not to be a Lithuanian woman. Although his thoughts are scattered, they still contain a worldview that is always present. He sees the world devastated and completely destroyed by the First World War. In the end, Eliot tries to correct his fragmentation by letting it be known that he has made it.