Discuss the poem "To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence" by James Flecker.

James Elroy
Flecker was a prolific English poet.  Dying at the age of thirty from tuberculosis, Flecker's
death was described at the time as "unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English
literature has suffered since the death of Keats."  What an epitaph!

Flecker's poem "To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence" has five stanzas with each
verse following the rhyme scheme of abab. The narration is in first person
with the poet himself as the narrator. The tone is positive and emotionally representative of
the time in which the  poet wrote.  It also speaks to the melancholy attitude of the poet as he
approaches his death.

In the poem, the narrator speaks to another poet who
lives a thousand years in...