Kazi Nazrul Islam and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the two most prominent poets in the Indian subcontinent, have used their poetry to bring out the image of social conflict and injustice in society. Their poems represent the social struggle of the exploited and their conflicts with the bourgeoisie. They bring up the issue of conflict, but the possible outcomes come up in their poetry. This paper intends to study comparatively Nazrul and Faiz under the theoretical framework of the conflict theory proposed by Karl Marx. For this study, selected poems of the poets' will be analyzed where social conflict and the assumption of the conflicts are highlighted. The similarity of their revolutionary and reformative ideas is also be highlighted.

Kazi Nazrul Islam, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, conflict theory, Karl Marx, revolution, reformative ideas