Indian English Poetry: A Study

Indian English poetry is a translator's version Of India and theme of Indianness, A visitor's understanding of India, An insider's tryst with Indian poetry in English And the Indians would not have accepted it Had it not shown the doors of knowledge Based on fact and reason, Had it not opened the door of the world. Whatever see you, that is British and European, The house, the school, the college, The university, the court and the police station, The roadway and the hospital, The water pump, the electric power, The telephone, the post-office and the cinema hall, The radio, the newspaper and the press And had it been so, we would have told about The making of the rock-built temples. Even if there was Indian English verse, It was because they had access to British masters, The colonial people or the administrators And without having read in schools and colleges, They could not have verses, at least tried Just for them reading them and their books, Can the Indian verse-writers have their existence In love isolation? Indian English poetry, what is Indian in English poetry, how is it Indian, Say you, how can it be called Indian English poetry, If the speakers are not English, if they are natives, But had they not read Spenser, Wyatt, Drayton, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Blake, would they have, Had they not Arnold, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Wordsworth, Keats, would they have verses Had they not read Eliot, Pound and Eliot?