اختر شیرانی اور جان کیٹس کے مشترک رومانوی زاویے: ادبی نظریات اور امیجری The Similar Romantic Characteristics of Akhtar Shirani and John Keats: Literary Ideas and Imagery Section Urdu Literature

Abstract

It's quite interesting to do a comparative study of two Romantic poets from two different languages and literatures and draw similarities and dissimilarities between their thought patterns, literary beliefs/schools of thoughts, romantic characteristics, concerns and themes etc... John Keats is the most Romantic English poet ever; likewise, Akhtar Shirani is the most Romantic poet, Urdu has ever produced. Romantic movement in English literature reached its climax in the early nineteenth century; a century before it set forth in Urdu. Still the two Romantic poets have striking similarities in the romantic characteristics of their poetry, like fervent imagination, quest for beauty, escapism, sensuousness, medievalism, nostalgia, supernaturalism etc. This article aims at a comparative study of Keats's and Shirani's imagery. Both Keats's and Shirani's poetry carves out pictures with words. Both romantic poets have employed all sorts of imageries like concrete imagery, empathic imagery, kinesthetic & synesthetic imageries....