A.D.Hope As A Poet Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Is allegorical, full of references
To Yeats, Keats, Browning,
Tennyson
Sometimes mimicking, sometimes parodying,
But Swiftian in essence,
A poet conventional
But so different
Just like an islander
Telling of the islands
Not the colonies settled.

A poet Donnian, Popian
He is more of the 18th century
Rather than the twentieth,
Sarcastic and cutting
Across the lines,
Hope intermixes
To reproduce
With his remarks and judgements
In an Australian presentation.