The master poet strives to touch both implicit and explicit meanings. In this, he has to reach for the deepest thoughts, as a duty, for only his carefully chosen words he uses will be able to express rightly these thoughts. The mark of a great poet is his  ability to be a-temporal, to make sense at any point for any person, to resonate in spite of time. When Walt Whitman hears America singing[1], his praise of the work of people building a nation is still palpable today, and could apply to any country, in which men and women will always praise their efforts. The repetition he uses as a stylistic device is reminiscent of the rhythm of a machine, or of the repetitive gestures of the worker in general. In this also he goes beyond the simple meaning of language, adding to it a new layer of interpretation. The force of this kind of poem is their ability to express the feelings common to all humanity, and in doing so allowing us to reach a better understanding of ourselves through the interpretation of the words, an interpretation that will always be personal. A poem that can only be understood from the point of view of the poet himself and which meaning is opaque otherwise is not great poetry, it is merely what a diary is to a novel. Thus when T.S. Eliot writes: As he rose and fell/He passed the stages of his age and youth/Entering the whirlpool[2], the feeling will resonate in anyone, as fear of death and desire for youth is present in every human being. This is but one theme that is common to all poetries in the world, for all humans have roughly the same questionings and fears, desires and pleasures; and poetry revolves around a series of themes.