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The Post-colonial English poetry and regional poetry mark a departure from the imitative or derivative background of English poetry. It’s canvassing the harsh realities of the conflict like displacement, survival and identity. The present paper aims to analyse Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish, the two distinguished poets of modern times, whose poetry revolves around the theme of everlasting sorrow and grief. Despite the geographical and cultural gap that separates Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish, yet they share the loss of homeland, displacement of their people and loss of cultural identity. As a result, both Ali and Darwish led lives of bitter struggle, marked by personal and collective loss, making them the most representative poets of their people. The sense of everlasting sorrow is a complex phenomenon and is very difficult to define in one definition. However, this paper argues how the poetry of the both poets documents the suffering of their people and presents a lyrical history of their struggles.
Liaqat Nazir. “The Everlasting Sorrow and Grief in the Poetry of Ali and Darwish..” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 995–1006. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n2.63.
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