A Comparative Analysis of the Selected Romantic Poems of Ahmed Faraz and E. E. Cummings

Abstract

The works of several romantic poets, writers, essayists, and novelists such as John Keats, John Donne, Jaun Elia, Parveen Shakir, etc. have contributed a treasure that has enhanced the literature of both America and South Asia. The purpose of this research was to identify the ways in which the romantic poetry by Ahmad Faraz and E.E. Cummings were similar to one another and the ways in which they differed from one another. For this analysis, just a select a few poems were chosen for the aim of conducting the comparative study. The textual study of the chosen poems demonstrated that both poets had a comparable vision of the romantic spirit and perception of ideal beauty, despite the fact that their modes of expression were different. The analysis of a selection of poems written by E.E. Cummings and Ahmad Faraz led to the deduction that, despite the fact that the perspectives from which the two poets express themselves were distinct from one another, their work as a whole centres on the romantic spirit and employs a wide variety of literary strategies in order to describe beautiful things.  The research has due to the fact that it only looked at a small selection of poems, but the door is still open for additional research on this topic.