Indeed Faiz and Shelley want the people to stand against the oppression

and realize their power. They want the downtrodden to rise against the
tyranny and the despicable exploitation. They make them realize that they
have the same rights as the elite class has. Their poem preaches that there
is no distinction between the poor and the rich, and if any one tries to
deprive them of their right, they should have the courage to snatch it by
force.
Shelley wants the emancipation of the poor. He advocates their cause and
espouses their rights. Shelley revolutionary is as pertinent for the current
age as it was for his own age. Chris long says the Shelleys poem the
Masque of Anarchy is a slogan of freedom for the modern times. The poet
and professor of Metropolitan university Adam ORiordan admires
Shelleys poem the mask of anarchy in this words the most compelling
thing about the poem is how it came to be . Further he says that it still
resonate with the modern world because it purrs and growls and beats with
the authentic rhythm of dissent and unrest and in doing so captures the
spirit of the city.
After reading Godwins famous book the political
injustice , Shelley was deeply impressed by it .this work has an immense
impact on the mind and the soul of young Shelley. According to Godwine
philosophy man is perfect able. A man who is fair and just will always
promote the greatest general good while taking care of that his immediate
motives are never unworthy. He bestows his wealth on the needy but
never expects any gratitude from them . Godwine severely criticizes
injustice and is said to have violated most of the existing institutions, as
they were bent on perpetuating injustices actively or passively. Shelley has
derived most of his ideas of his poem Queen Mob from the books of
Godwins political justice. The influence can be felt particularly in canto
III of the poem in which he has attacked the tyrannical and despotic
monarchs. Shelley did not achieve the fame which he deserved during his
life time. Critics of that time severely criticized him for his bring an
atheist, his moral degeneration and his subversive political views. Shelley
grew up in a family which had political sympathies with the right wing
party. But Shelley could not bring himself to accept the demands and
hypocrisy of the political expediency. Godwins book political justice
exerted a profound influence of Shelleys poetry. Having read the book
Shelley was able to see things in pure black and white. The essential
revolutionary utopianism and optimism put forward by Godwin found an
echo in Shelleys own temperament. England at the time of Shelley was
resonated with both politically and economically ideas and the events of
American and French revolution.

Shelley born in an age, where forces of repression, brutality, savagery and
barbarism were prevalent. as Shakespeare would have puts it, something
was rotten in the state of Denmark and the Hamlet in Shelley was out to
purge it.
The beginning of the French revolution saw the spread of liberal ideas
among those who had been rubbed of their rights for a long time. This air
of liberation did not only influence French but spread to everywhere there
was repression and tyrannical despotism. It made man realize their worth
that ultimately gave them a sense of dignity.
In 1814, Shelley started perceiving what was happening in Europe.
Shelley eloped with Mary Godwin and travelled through France. It was the
time when Shelley composed the poem Revolt of Islam. Shelley gives a
perceptive and balanced account of the years of French revolution in the
poem. Shelley was a rebel by nature. This poem demonstrates his views
but is not that successful as his other poems. The prolong and the jumbled
story of Loan and Cythna is replete with ideas of images somewhat
naively presented but afterwards transformed into splendor of the
Promethous Unbound and its reflects precisely his conception of
revolution and its uses,first presented in Queen Mob.
The Revolt of Islam is based on the grand epic scale. Shelley has adopted
Spenserian stanzas of the Farie- Queen. The poem is mainly concerned
with the eternal conflict between good and evil. The endeavourer for the
Golden city depicts Shelleys vision of the world as it is and the world as
it could be if man would lend ear to Godwins teaching of love and reason.
Loan the protagonist and the champion of good, and Cythna ,the ideal
woman ,who emerges as the stronger character of the two as the new
woman in the mould of Mary Wollstonecraft are Shelleys ideals of a
nation.
Made free by love, a mighty brotherhood
Linked by a jealous interchange of good.
( patricia Hodgart. A preface to Shelley,p-62)
In the original account of Loan and cythna were brother and sister, but was
changed to avoid further attacks on the poem which was already
considered to be offensive. Shelley emphasis the woes which they must
undergo for the liberation cause. There are many details that prefigures
Prometheus Unbound. It presents beautiful scenery of mountains, cans and
wild oceans to emphasis that how much beauty liberty holds.
The Revolt of Islam in spite of its miserable posturing in the face
of tyranny ,is still an optimistic poem. The ultimate message of the poem
is despair not and it is depicted that what will happen when good
spreads. The poem shows the basic goodness of man. Shelley ambitious
and noble prophecy is also reflected, if winter comes can spring be far
behind. It is an unfortunate fact that at this stage of his poetic
development , Shelley could not deftly handle the complications of a poem
extending over twelve cantos. The narrative is unreasonably involved and
another flaw of the poem is the confusing symbolism of snake and eagle.
It needs a profound allegorical interpretation, in other words, Yeatsian
approach.
One finds the reflection of Shelleys political thinking in the poem. The
poem makes explicit shelleys attitude towards the French revolution and
its outcome which is the master theme of his generation, or the
regeneration of faith in the freedom of man. His optimism regarding the
future is not just a timely impression but an established belief. His
conscience is overwhelmed by and abject situation of human in the
repressive social atmosphere. He is mainly concerned with human dignity
and the exercise of justice and the establishment of what a christen would
say, the establishment of Kingdom of heaven on earth.
Exactly the same pattern of thought is employed in the Revolution of
Islam is repeated in 1818, a year later in Lines written among the
Euganean Hills. The poem was composed by Shelley after the death of his
daughter. In the poem he stares at the waveless plain of Lombardy lie
beneath him as he stands upon the hill. Venus and Padua , the plain of the
cities ,are seen as the objects of the tyrannical rule of the Austrians. He is
likewise grieved by human barbarity and racial savagery.
Shelleys poem Ode to liberty and ode to Naples both composed in
1820, praise the positive advances for the freedom of nations. These odes
strike a triumphant note for the removal from the personal meditations on
the Euganean Hills. Both of the odes are astounding in their use of the ode
form the Pindaric ode to liberty being handled deftly. As it was the
demand of the public and political theme, therefore the diction of the odes
inclines to shrill and over-heated personification.
Indignation
Answered pity from her care
Peuth grew pale within the grave
And desolation howled to destroy, save!
(O Niel Michal: A literary life p-25)
Ode of Liberty was, indeed, an essential kind of exercise for the poets of
Romantic age. It is an inevitable response to the surge of sentiments which
blowing across Europe ,and ultimately influenced every sensitive soul.
The poem contains philosophical ideas from the outset which can be
related to those pertinent to the French revolution, the great event which
had deeply influenced the affairs of his life time.
Shelley had acquired his habit of skepticism from English empirical
writers, due to which there can be realized the strain of skepticism in his
subsequent works.
Shelley regarded Godwins book political justice as The Bibl
and its preference acknowledges the authors indebtedness to Godwines
speculations which had more than a lasting effect on him. Shelley seems
to have dedicated his life to this ideal and wrote about it with full
conviction. As Milton would have put it regarding Shelley, Shelley was
out to justify the ways of Godwin to man.
Shelley composed his first long and important poem Queen Mab in
1812. It seems that has invested all his intellectual excitement in the poem.
The poem is replete with passionate specifications, contradictory theories
and material accumulated from his extensive reading. Queen Mab opens
with the epigraph of Voltires famous expression Ecrasez inframe with
which Shelley launches his assault on the enemies of society, monarchy,
religion, warfare. Shelley put forward a progressive and enlightened
Government under which religious toleration and freedom of expression
as well as thought could flourish. Shelley was against the church and its
excessive interference with life of people. He expresses his disgust against
the unjustified power of the church in the following lines:
prolific fiend
Who peoplest earth demons
Hell with them and heaven with slaves
Shelleys account of necessity the great chain of nature in Queen
Mab, is given a bestowed with a panorama of past and present leading to
future in which the habitat earth is full of bliss and man lives in harmony
with all its creatures. The purpose behind Queen Mab to represent what
monarchs and conquerors in their pride have made of earth, in building
and destroying cities, waging wars and subduing their subjects, the
desperately wandering Jews are testimony to the malignant nature of God
and his Son. Nature is depicted as a heedless force.
All that wide world contains.
Are but thy passive instruments, and the regardest them all with
and impartiality.
(Hodgart Patricia: A preface to Shelley,p-29)
It seems that Shelley believes in the cause of Nature necessary
progress the golden age will return as he predicts afterwards in Promethus
Ubound and Hellos. He firmly believes in the ultimate spiritual revival of
man and the world.
Critics consider Queen Mab as a piece of intellectual show about
the subject towards which Shelley was inclined as a young man, namely
astronomy, vegetarianism and so on. But it also establishes him as a
romantic poet even when committed to the materialistic program of the
philosophies and philosophers of his choice. Here, we find Shelley in the
role of Romantic reformers.
Shelleys poems bear a magical and dreamlike framework. He is
not only dealing with the dry bones of philosophy or parroting abstract
philosophical concepts; but he creates the visionary setting of an artist, full
of beauty and bliss.
Shelleys Ode to the West is reckoned to be one of the
characteristically revolutionary poems. It is the essence of Shelleys
genius. Indeed it is an appreciable poem because of its grand theme and
matchless weep, its smoothness, poetic beauty and lyrical quality. Shelley
has wonderfully dramatized his sharp senses of painful pessimism and
ultimate triumph of optimism.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz expresses his revolutionary zeal in his poetry.
For questioning the dominant authority he was unjustly terrorize and
persecuted, but he would not abandon his ideals. Some lines extracted
from Tadeebs Article put his struggle in this word, the great crusader
against imperialism who is suffering from torture due to his progressive
thought.
Faiz was the poet of all oppressed human beings as Iftikhar Arif
describes Faiz and his work in this words, Faiz was the poet of mankind
,his poetry was eternal ,universal, and the representative of human values,
but is obvious that not being a man of regional acclaim one cannot become
universally.
Faiz is considered one of the greatest Urdu poets. He is renowned
for his revolutionary struggle and for revolutionary poetry as well.
According to Khalid Hussain, Faizs poetry is indistinguishable from the
way he has live his life. The publication of his first collection of poems,
Naqshe e-Faryadi, catapults him to fame. One of the most widely
known and admired poem is Do not ask me my beloved for the previous
kind of love, in which be renounce the romantic kind of love for his
beloved for meditation of the suffering and miseries of the world. This
poem is milestone in the poetry of Faiz. It drives him to consideration of
the miseries of the world around him; and the troubles around him
regarding the freedom struggle in his land. The poem depicts the conflict
going on in Faiz mind, the conflict between the pull and push of love and
demands of patriotism.
Dont ask me my beloved for the previous kind of love
If I get you fate will be sealed.
But things were not like that I had only wished them to be so,
There are other agonies of the world besides the agony of love
There are other kinds of joys in addition to the solace of love. (II 6-9)
(Daud Kamal: Unicorn and the dancing girls, p138)
Faiz another poem Speak Up is a short but powerful poem which was
written before the partition of the sub-continent. Critics have called it the
Testament of the Third World . this poem was written in the heydays of
the Bristish Raj when the protest movement was entirely banned and
public protest was ruthlessly quelled.