A Critic Need Of The Hour! Poem by Ramesh T A

O Matthew Arnold! You should be living at this hour!
For want of good critic like you nothing is going on well;
All kinds of writings in the name of poetry abounds here!
In your time seeing such turn you wrote Study of Poetry;
You also analyzed all poets and listed the best ones then;
Now there is no one to do that job for the prevailing poets.
You established Touch Stone Method of deciding the best;
Placing the lines of Homer and Dante you analyzed all;
In your scrutiny even Spencer, Chaucer and Shakespeare too
Could not make a mark except John Milton, the erudite poet!
That was too much and yet it laid some guidelines for all
And helped those poets to think about on them before writing.
Now what guide lines or rules can be framed for poets today?
Only a poet critic like you can do the job to decide about the best!