“And I Tiresias have foresuffered all ...” – more than allusions to ovid in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?
“And I Tiresias have foresuffered all ...” – more than allusions to ovid in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine the role of Teiresi's character in the epic poem of T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land. In order to answer this question, it is first of all important to review the literary ideas of T. S. Eliot; Secondly, it is necessary to discover and examine the parallels between Teiresio's depiction of Ovidius's Metamorphoses and the character of the narrator in The Waste Land. Elliot's text contains many indirect references that make it possible to perceive the function of this character as the author's medium. Moreover, the good knowledge of all previous literary traditions and especially of the features that were attributed to mythical Teiriiis is an essential prerequisite for an adequate understanding of the author's position in the poem.

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