/lit/ - Literature

When I finish it.

>yes

>>16974471
based

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6v51tTn9cs

>The third act opens with a grave orchestral prelude the subtle chromaticism of which are a foretaste of a harmony, throughout the act, the like of which had not been known in music until then, even in the work of such a master of chromatic nuance as Wagner: in some places it marks an advance upon Tristan in this field as great as Tristan--which is the great dividing line between the older harmony and the new--had been upon the Rhinegold and the Valkyrie.
>The prelude covers, in its own purely musical way, the weary years that have elapsed between Parsifal's regaining of the Spear, the origin, the properties and the appointed function of which he now knows, and his arrival once more, all unaware of it, in the domain of the Grail, which Kundry had told him jeeringly he, the youthful Fool, would never find again. (According to the legend it is of the essence of the Grail that he who seeks for it can never find it: he must be led to it by the Grail itself at the Grail's own time). Parsifal has wandered far in these years, been engaged in many battles and beset by difficulties and racked by self-doubts of all kinds; but always with the one great purpose of pity burning within him, some day to light upon the castle of the Grail again and heal Amfortas with a touch of the Spear that had dealt him his wound.

What is the literary/poetic significance of Wagner's Parsifal?