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The result was keep. — Cirt (talk) 00:36, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. WP:BEFORE would have been helpful here. This is a famous poem by a notable 19th century Indian poet. As borne out by the hundreds of hits at GBooks[1] and the dozens at GScholar[2], this poem was often anthologized and is discussed extensively in secondary literature. A couple of examples: One of the poet's biographers called it "surely the most remarkable poem ever written in English by a foreigner".[3] The author of British And Indian English Literature: A Critical Study called it a "beautiful symbolic poem combining both matter and manner in proper proportion" and went into a detailed analysis[4] There's plenty more. This article needs improving, not deletion. --Arxiloxos (talk) 00:01, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. per Arxiloxos. This is notable enough to be inflicted upon successive generations of indian school kids in our English syllabus (along with another famous poem of hers called "The lotus")--Sodabottle (talk) 05:39, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, v/r - TP 20:41, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notability has been amply demonstrated above. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:01, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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