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The Waste Land: Tiresias As Christ
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....m is relayed through the character of Tiresias. Tiresias is a blind prophet who shows up in several different literary works. In The Waste Land Tiresias is an allusion to Christ. This allusion is best illustrated in section 3 of The Waste Land "The Fire Sermon".
The first description involving Tiresias occurs in "Th.... Part 2 of Paper
.... Tiresias have foresuffered all / Enacted on this same divan or bed (ll.243-244)." Tiresias seems most Christ like at this moment in the poem. According to Steven Helmling in The Grin of Tiresias: humor in the Waste Land, "Tiresias participates in the suffering he sees, like Christ; and he has foresuffered all like Christ (pg.148)." Tiresias sees and feels all that the typist and her lover are going through.
God is a common figure throughout the poem The Waste Land. Tiresias is most God l.... |
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