... Tiresias , the protagonist of the poem and its unifying symbol . TIRESIAS Tiresias , according to Eliot , is the central figure in the poem , an interested spectator of the modern wasteland , and ' what Tiresias sees is the substance of ...

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... Tiresias climaxes his rivalry with the gods. In Oedipus the King, Tiresias's arrival initiates the conflict between Apollo's signs and Oedipus's voice—a conflict that strikes at the roots of the city's order, which is based on the ...

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CONTENTS To E. Fitzgerald Tiresias The Wreck Despair The Ancient Sage The Flight Tomorrow The Spinster's Sweet-Arts Balin and Balan Prologue The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava Epilogue To Virgil The Dead Prophet Early Spring ...

... Tiresias is revered not only as all - knowing but as a protector , as the final hope of salvation for Thebes . But this apparent reverence is destabilized in two ways . First there is Tiresias ' strange response to Oedipus ' speech ...

Two stories woven and unraveled together: a young transgender student named Quinn helps his girlfriend escape from a violent home, while almost one hundred years prior, T. S. Eliot's life is given a fictional retelling.