My Father Told Me Strictly (My Moral Duty As A Poet) Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

You never try to popularize and promote yourself,
Never do a propaganda of you yourself,
If you have poetic merit and talent,
One day fame itself come to you
Knocking at your door humbly
And you a poor scholar welcoming the guest of hospitality.

Learn from Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge,
Gray’s An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
And Auden’s The Unknown Citizen,
But never highlight yourself,
If you have to, highlight others,
Deriving from Arnold’s The Scholar Gipsy.

Keep a low profile, but show not,
Place it humbly
Toned with your scholasticism and pedantry,
Metaphysics, ethics, didacticism and cultural pragmatism;
Let them say, but you say not about you
And your poetic abilities as far as possible
And that is why want I not to say to.