| Summary: | This research aims to evaluate the presence of Lyrical vein in the poetry of Habba Khatoon and Sarojini
Naidu. Habba Khatoon is the 16th century Kashmiri poet and Sarojini Naidu, the 20th century poet from
Hyderabad, India. Khatoon is considered as the “Nightingale of Kashmir” and Sarojini Naidu is crowned
with the sobriquet “Nightingale of India”. The centre of attention in this research is the comparative study
of their poetry and how both the poets, though belonging to different period of time, places, religion and
milieus depicts the same conventions in terms of Lyricism. The elements studied in this stream are
characters, situations, places, language, metaphors and similes in their poems. The researcher used the
qualitative research and essentials of Orality and Lyricism to analyse the poems carefully. The poems are
mostly folk songs and are sung even today and therefore has been additive since ages. The oral literature
has been the main agent in the legacy of their songs. The songs carry the musical quality and have also
been the focal point in this research. The conclusion of this research exhibits that the poetry of both poets
is flooded with the elements of Lyricism. Both the poets are subjective in writing. They have used the
situations, places and characters usually from the common life. The use of metaphors and similes by the
poets witnesses the artistic taste of the Medieval and Modern poetry. The study exhibits the similarities
witnessed through their evaluation.
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