Madame Sosotris
No circus ground would be complete without a fortune teller. Though not known
to be a real person, Madame Sosotris appears in T.S Eliot’s most famous poem The Wasteland. The poem is told from her daughter’s point of view.
Extract from Madame Sosotris’ Daughter:
She met a lot of famous folk, hungry for scraps,
Eliot were one of ‘em and she marked him good.
It were ‘im what called her Madame Sosostris,
to everyone else, she were plain Ma Future.
She’d found ‘im gloomy, reluctant to talk,
and he never had them cards what he said!
to be a real person, Madame Sosotris appears in T.S Eliot’s most famous poem The Wasteland. The poem is told from her daughter’s point of view.
Extract from Madame Sosotris’ Daughter:
She met a lot of famous folk, hungry for scraps,
Eliot were one of ‘em and she marked him good.
It were ‘im what called her Madame Sosostris,
to everyone else, she were plain Ma Future.
She’d found ‘im gloomy, reluctant to talk,
and he never had them cards what he said!
