Empathy vs. Authenticity in Poetry: A Comparative Study of Voices for the Marginalised

This paper looks at how poets from different backgrounds write about the struggles of marginalised communities. Poets who experience pain and oppression firsthand can express their suffering in an authentic way because it comes from their own lives. Although they might attempt to comprehend the suffering, poets who are not directly involved can only demonstrate empathy. As a result, there is a chance that the actual experience of suffering will be misinterpreted or inaccurately depicted. By contrasting the works of poets who write from personal experience, such as Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Tony Harrison, and Namdeo Dhasal, with those of poets who write from a more privileged position, such as William Blake, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Mathew Arnold, Rudyard Kipling, W.H. Auden, and Stephen Spender, this study investigates how social background influences how poets represent marginalisedvoices and the difficulties that accompany it.