Agha Shahid Ali and Imtiaz Dharker are the two most popular and accomplished poets of the twentieth century. The exploration of their poetry reveals a diasporic world in which the dark forces of life threaten to destroy any vestiges of redemption. They convey their complex inner states of mind. That is why there is a great deal of diaspora in their poems. They spend most of their life in self-exile alienation in West. Imtiaz Dharker currently divides her time between the United Kingdom and Mumbai. She often describes herself as a Scottish Muslim Calvinist, born in Lahore and adopted by India. Ali divides his time between U.S.A. and Delhi and Kashmir. Their life and work were similarly affected by their state of being “exile”. The focus of this paper will be the comparative study of Agha Shahid Ali and Imtiaz Dharker
