TY - JOUR ID - 139200 TI - Poetics of Revolution: anti-colonialism in Maruf Al-Rusafi's Day of Fallujah and Munir Shikohabad's The Qasida JO - Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies JA - JELCS LA - en SN - AU - Sameer, Ali Kareem AD - Ministry of Education in Iraq-Anbar Education Directorate Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 42 EP - 51 KW - colonialism KW - colonizers KW - Maruf Al-Rusafi KW - Munir Shikohabadi KW - poetry DO - 10.26655/JELCS.2021.2.5 N2 - This paper aims at exploring the theme of anti-colonialism in Maruf Al-Rusafi's poem ''Day of Fallujah'' and Munir Shikohabad's poem ''The Qasida''. Both of them are undergoing a generating considerable interest in terms of anti-colonialism with their pens and poems that entered the history of struggle against colonialism. This paper also documents the refusal of people of both countries: India and Iraq for the British colonial rule by analyzing two poems of Munir Shikohabadi and Maruf Al-Rusafi. The role of those two poets was to call for the unity of their people and encourage them to rebel against the colonizers and their agents; by condemning the British colonizers and disclosing their bluffing. This study is an attempt to answer the questions: how did Al-Rusafi and Shikohabadi link the bridge of struggle against colonialism through their poems? What were the literary techniques Al-Rusafi and Shikohabadi used to make their poems be argumentative in modern literature? UR - https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_139200.html L1 - https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_139200_feb35f184c0960757c6e4bc83413618d.pdf ER -