When the first part of these poems, Shikwa ( 1909 ), was published it created a big confusion amongst Muslim scholars who thought that Iqbal is being rude and harsh in his words when talking to God in his book and being unthankful of the blessings of God, since the second part of his poem ( Jawab-e-Shikwa ) was not announced with the publication of the first one.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne noted that though it is his first published poem, " The Shadow of Night " already expresses Chapman's sense of rejection; Swinburne described the poem as " full of loud and angry complaints of neglect and slight, endured at the hands of an unthankful and besotted generation . " The poem appears to contain an autobiographical reference, indicating that Chapman served in a military campaign in the Dutch Republic under Sir Francis Vere, in the 1591-2 period.
