Poetry is severely underestimated these days. This does not surprise me as poetry requires quite a bit of work to understand and appreciate. For example, the natural rhythm in a good piece of poetry is not spoon fed to the listener as when listening to music, but must be drawn out from within. And lets not forget the actual words themselves..
I am no expert on poetry, BUT there are a few that struck me as significant back when I first came across them, and have lingered ever since. Perhaps we can work together and see if we cannot piece together another missing piece of the puzzle? Who is to say these men and women understood the truth any less than we did?
The first poem I want to present is by T.S. Eliot, in perhaps his most famous work, which is surprising considering how few people actually seem to understand it, myself included!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
it is quite long.. and also makes use of images and figures from history and legend that have all but been forgotten.
but just skimming through it, some KEY words that hint towards deeper meanings just jump out at me.
Who is the fisher king?
> I sat upon the shore
>Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
>Shall I at least set my lands in order?
>London Bridge is falling down falling >down falling down
>Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina
>Quando fiam uti chelidon—O swallow swallow
>Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie
>These fragments I have shored against my ruins
>Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo’s mad againe.
>Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
> Shantih shantih shantih
These FRAGMENTS I have SHORED against my RUINS.
This line, near the end of the poem, has always haunted me for some reason, from the very first time I forced myself to trudge through this entire thing, barely registering any of it, but this line, has always stuck out to me as significant..
Feel free to add bits of poetry you find significant, or if you are brave enough, poetry of your own is more than welcome as well! Love you all