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.
what does the narrator say he is waiting for in the first lines of gerontion
"waiting for rain ''