Marylin Monroe once said she reads poetry because it saves time. When you think about it, it’s an incredibly wise insight. Poetry does save time because it distils experience and emotion into a condensed form that can be easily read. Not only that, it amplifies the meaning of content in a profound way. My favourite poems are still the early work of T S
Eliot such as Rhapsody on a Windy night.
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
So, what are the poems that shake your memory? I’d love to know.