A Comparative Study of P.B. Shelley and Habib Jalib as Revolutionary Poets

The poetry in which a poet protests against the oppression, inequality, despotism and strives for emancipation of the poor is called revolutionary poetry and the poet who rebels against the social injustice by using the medium of poetry is called a revolutionary. The objective of this study is to compare analytically the revolutionary poetry of P.B Shelley and Habib Jalib and to explore the cause of revolutions in different societies. Our study is qualitative in which secondary data has been used. The data has been collected from different articles, magazines, newspapers and research papers. The common themes of selected revolutionary poems of both poets P.B Shelley and Habib Jalib. Our study finds that when social evils like injustice, inequality, persecution, feudalism, exploitation and killings of innocent people run rampant in a society, an agitation will start and revolution will take place.