This reminds me of what W.H.Auden alludes to T.S. Eliot's radical effort on poetry in his poem 'Letter to Lord Byron' (1936), remarking, 'Eliot spoke the still unspoken word.'
Many lasting poetic interventions reside in its ability to create life when life itself was being suffocated by brutal forces caught up in unprecedented social upheavals or between cultural sterilization.