# Tiresias — Poetry character guide

> Tiresias in Poetry by T. S. Eliot.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0035-iii-the-fire-sermon

## Who they are

The blind prophet from The Waste Land, who witnesses and unites all the poem's characters.

## Links

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