THEMATIC SIMILARITIES BETWEEN IQBAL AND HIS CONTEMPORARY POETS

Abstract

Iqbal was a great poet of modern Urdu poetry and his 
contemporary poets directly accepted his influence. Iqbal's poems 
were published in Sir Abdul Qadir's magazine "Makhzn", so he 
gained fame very quickly. His contemporary poets started 
imitating his themes and styles when he became famous. In the 
beginning, Iqbal made the phenomena of nature the subject of his 
poems. His contemporary poets have also presented the beauty of 
nature in their poetry. Soon Iqbal changed his direction of thought 
and awakened the consciousness of the nation. When Iqbal started 
patriotic, national, and reformist poetry, themes of national nature 
flourished in his contemporaries' poems. The poetry of Iqbal's era 
is intellectually homogenous and common. The main reason is that 
Iqbal and his contemporaries share many revolutionary ideas and 
national thoughts. In the poems of Iqbal and his contemporaries, 
dreams are found for the country's bright future. In their poetry, the 
description of the homeland, India's greatness, and the scenes of 
nature are reflected. Iqbal and his contemporary poets have made 
naturalism, nostalgia, patriotism, and children's literature the same 
subject. They have the same reform, moral, political, and social 
consciousness. Iqbal and his contemporary poets were patriotic. 
They revealed the hidden secrets of the universe and nature. In the 
poetry of Iqbal and his contemporary poets, the element of message 
and preaching is prominent. There is a lot of similarity in their 
imagination and thoughts.