Thomas Hood

So many literary critics or alias would be poets Try to stuff their beliefs down the readers throats And tell us who is average and who is very good And amongst the minor writers they've placed Thomas Hood. Is it because Thomas Hood wrote mostly for the poor Or that he was never financially secure Or that he did not laud sir and lord and king? Mostly for the battlers the poet choose to sing. The poets of the battlers seem to live it hard To get at the under class discredit their bard Thomas Hood the great poet by critics dragged down To write for the working poor his barrier to renown. As a poet and humorist Hood was versatile He was not all sorrow he too made people smile One who lived his verses the battlers lot he knew And to the higher principles till death he was true. One of those great wordsmiths who died in his prime Thomas Hood from London had the gift of rhyme Yet the literary critics him did under rate Those who separate the average from the good and great. When one looks back on literary history it comes as no surprise To learn that the poets who wrote for the under class seldom won a literary prize Poets who write of those in poverty never stand to gain They are seen as minor and minor will remain. So many literary critics or so called would be poets Try to stuff their beliefs down the readers throats And they who decide the average and the very good Amongst the minor writers have placed Thomas Hood.