Birds, Beasts And Flowers In Indian English Poetry: A Study In Descriptions (Ph.D. Title) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

While working on birds, beasts and flowers,
One carry it forward from Toru to modern times,
From Wordsworth to Lawrence
To Hughes and Larkin.

India of the bullock-carts, horse-carriages,
Asses of the washer-men going to the ghat,
Cheetahs gone extinct, hunted down,
Snake-charmers with the cobras
Playing the wooden instrument,
Hanumans going with their teams,
Black-mouthed, white-haired,
Small breed rhesus monkeys
Red-mouthed and beautiful,
How to describe, put to words
An exotic India of strange flora and fauna?