Tiresias : blind prophet of Thebes. He obtained his prophetic powers either by Athene who had blinded him when he saw her bathing; or by Zeus in compensation for his wife Hera having blinded him. Tiresias foretold most great events of ancient Greece.
... further point that, even as Tiresias is central to the scheme of The Waste Land, Odysseus is to that of the Cantos: In one sense, the substance of the Cantos is what Odysseus sees, as that of The Waste Land is what Tiresias sees. The distinction between these two personae gives us one measure of Pound's poem. Tiresias the shade, foresuffering all... engaged in active amelioration of conditions for himself and his men, involved in factive protagonist in what he sees. 45 In the first Canto, when Odysseus sets out on his voyage, Tiresias tells him: Page 389 'A second time? why? man of ill star, 'Facing the sunless dead and this joyless region? 'Stand from the fosse, leave me my... 'Odysseus 'Shalt return through spiteful Neptune, over dark seas, 'Lose all companions'. Is this really a parable of Pound's own adventure with the Cantos ? Is it Tiresias warning Odysseus, or the Muse warning Pound? It may be both; and it is spoken with the accents of prophecy. To Pound himself the Cantos are no more than "the tale of the tribe" ...
... carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old,* here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey... Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, 12 or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, 13 or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 14 Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration of the Illumined Mind ...
... there: Of man's first disobedience and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering rhythm as having the overhead complexion, but ...
... Paradise Lost, Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, Page 104 On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration ...
... personages, all famous but all blind like himself, and the first two of them poets whose fame he would wish to equal as he has equalled their fate: Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. 3 Page 41 After naming these men, he continues what he started saying with "Nightly I visit": Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move ...
... in which they are carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages from Milton: On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues ... Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey ...
... ominous rise of Hitler. There were the pathetic but abortive attempts to contain the developing world crisis through the Geneva Disarmament Conference. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo could, beyond any Tiresias, see everything and see through everything. And such a gift of vision may have been a terrible burden, for that involved also a proportionate responsibility. II 1938: it was a year ...
... echo there: Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree or On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old. Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the Page 37 inspiration of the illumined ...
... carried lifts all to the poetic level. Take one of the passages I have quoted from Milton, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ... or Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old, here the epithets are the same that would be used in prose, the right word in the right place, exact in statement, but all lies in the turn which makes them convey ...
... can well understand your greater predicament. Although one may pride oneself on being in the august company of Milton in his fifties no less than of Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old, or on receiving the same stroke of adverse fate as that superman of music, the aged Beethoven, it is surely preferable to be less distinguished but fully able to appreciate ...
... disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, or On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides Page 61 And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old.... Milton's lines might at first sight be taken because of a certain depth of emotion in their large lingering rhythm as having the overhead complexion, but this ...
... opening lines of Paradise Lost, Sri Aurobindo wants us to consider as an instance, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues, or Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old. Then Sri Aurobindo goes on: "Shakespeare's poetry coruscates with a play of the hues of imagination which we may regard as a mental substitute for the inspiration ...
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