🛑Australia 1939(1943) || A.D. Hope || RGUKT/NET/SET

Australia by A. D. Hope (1939) They call her a young country, but they lie: She is the last of lands, the emptiest, A woman beyond her change of life, a breast Still ripe but feeding nothing to her posterity, Whose rivers of water drown among inland sands, The river of her immense stupidity Floods her monotonous tribes from sea to sea, Arriving at the dead, dark oil of the sands. Without songs, architecture, history: The emotions and superstitions of younger lands, Her rivers of water drown among inland sands, She hoards her immense stupidity from sea to sea. A nation of trees, drab and delicate drab Of alien hills, where endless plains lie bare, And in the sprawling cities bloated and drab Like an Australian drain, the stupid air. And her five cities, like five teats, On which the drainers of the bush, the men Of the towns, live without life, their thoughts Turned inwards on a small, sterile den. Yet there are some like me turn gladly home From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find The Arabian desert of the human mind, Hoping, if still from the deserts the prophets come, Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare Springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes Which is called civilization over there. #ugc #ugcnet #ugcnetexam #ugcnetpreparation #english #englishlearning #englishliterature #set #apset #tsset #rgukt #assistantprofessor #Degree #Ba #ma #summary #explaination #explore #explained #telugu #shorts #shortsummary #shorystory#jl #dl