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discuss the main poets of the romantic revival with their salient contribution for 16 marks
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ROMANTIC POETS AND THIER CONTRIBUTION

SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare is responsible for inventing, popularizing, repurposing, and preserving thousands of common words in the English language. His playful usage of language included combining two words to make a new one, changing verbs into adjectives, changing nouns into verbs, and adding prefixes or suffixes to words.In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays: Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, as well as the collaboration, Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

JAUN ELIA

Jaun Elia believed that poets were mere jesters; entertainers at the best. He never liked them much. He never aspired to be one. In his preface to ‘Shaayad’, his first poetic anthology, and the only one which came out during his lifetime, he makes clear that he would not compromise on anything less than prophethood. Hence, he loved pre-Islamic pagan-Arabia, and took inspiration from Kahins. He lived a life of a pagan, and he died as one. Therefore, calling Jaun Elia a poet, or comparing him with other Urdu poets, is actually belittling Jaun.

Jaun’s knowledge and understanding of eastern and western philosophies, history of religions, logic, global literature and politics was so vast and deep that poets like Majaz and Jigar could only amuse him for a short period of time. It is therefore no surprise that his beloved poets hailed from the Arabian peninsula, Babylon, and Persia, with an exception of Meer Taqi Meer, whom he considered the most underrated Urdu poet of all times. He criticised Ghalib endlessly. He used to say ‘Mian Ghalib to pachchees sheroN ka shaa’ir tha’ (Ghalib had only 25 good couplets). By that he meant that Ghalib had no usloob (no peculiar style of his own) unlike Urfi, Khusro, or Meer. Before Jaun, only Yaganah had the courage to make such a comment about Ghalib.