Although it precedes "The Waste Land" by almost a decade, it foreshadows Eliot's break with tradition, combining suggestive fragments of Western culture with elements of modern life. Combining the old with the new, Pound produces disturbing, sexually centered anachronisms that capitalize on the prior history of literature but also revolutionary modern theories; psychological, sexual and literary. Overall, "Coitus" is an atom of knowledge, capable of splitting and exploding in distant realms of historical and literary realms, yet at the same time disturbingly intriguing for its modern sexuality.