John Keats and Shiv Kumar Batalvi: Kings of Melancholy and Separation

Abstract

Writing sensuous poetry in two different languages, both poets speak of agony, pain, sorrow, and despair in human lives, conveying a strong relationship between love, beauty, and truth, with beauty being transient. Sufferings, the feelings of intense pains, drowning sorrows, and miserable failures in their love- lives did affect their literary works, but  for the better as both wanted to give their best; perhaps  aware of the paucities of times allotted to them by the Almighty as they were born for transcended imagination in their poetries. Their handsomeness proved that beauty is short-lived. The ‘Lady-luck’ did smile on both, but alas! Both lost it.