T.S Eliot and "The Waste Land"

In classes we could observe a picture where everybody said what we can rescue from it and what it makes us feel. Well, there were different perceptions; loneliness, darkness, desolation, love, rubbish, sadness. Those descriptions have in common the idea of "bad" things, because the picture does not show the opposite and let think think that there is nothing else.
If we put the idea of the image with the poem "The Waste Land" from T.S Eliot I can find that image reflected in the V part of the poem, which is called "What the Thunder said". In the first part of that sonnet appear the idea of what happened after a great storm, and if we looks carefully at the picture we could see that there are hindrance and rubbish everywhere. But, among those all rubbish we can find life expressed throughout the two people in the back of the image. In the case of the poem we can see that in an specific part there is named water, but saying that there is not water:

"Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road"

Here happens the same thing as in the image. The fact that there is no water it means that there is no life, because water is the essential element of life. So, we can conclude that the poem and the image reflect the ideas of destruction and death.