I was reading ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas. It’s a poem about an old man who seems to have had his electricity cut off, and his son is imploring him to do something about it. To pay his bill, presumably. I prefer poetry that talks about the small, everyday matters of life; I find the more lofty themes tend to go over my head. I am a late comer to poetry -over 60 years late. For me, the purpose of poetry is not to teach us things we don’t know, but rather to bring into our consciousness things we already know but haven’t paid enough attention to. Things like the importance of paying our bills on time.
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You like the real life experience in poems? for example:
Thomas Tallis
Bore no man any malice
Except and organist named Ken
Who played his music badly now and again
Spike Milligan
The poem from the OP in case anyone wants to read it who wondered what the OP was about.