So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
More often than not people will talk and dispute subjects about which they have absolutely no knowledge.
Don't discuss something you've never fully "seen"
In John Godfrey Saxe's "The Blind Men and the Elephant," each man touches a different part of the elephant (such as the trunk, tusk, or tail) and forms a limited understanding of the animal based on their individual experience. The poem serves as a metaphor for how different perspectives can lead to incomplete truths.
It is difficult to find references - just about all occurrences of the poem on the Internet only give the author's birth and death year (1816-1887). The only references I found give either 1872 and 1873.
Graham Godfrey has written: 'Pioneers - a poem by Walt Whitman set to music'
It's a poem called "The Blind Men and the Elephant". It starts out "It was six men of Industan to learning much inclined/who went to see the elephant though each of them was blind." It's by John Godfrey Saxe. See attached link. Many versions exist of it in prose forms.
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John of Damascus - poem - was created in 1859.
lr of religious poetry?
The Lewis Carroll poem that starts with "He thought he saw an elephant" is called "The Mad Gardener's Song" from the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." In this nonsense poem, the Mad Gardener describes seeing bizarre and unreal creatures.