The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity. Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-Political Realities
Fatima Afzal
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2025 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: A, University of the Punjab, course: English, language: English, abstract: This paper aims at analyzing the social and political themes of the Pakistani poetry in Urdu language focusing Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Parveen Shakir and Habib Jalib. Employing a qualitative textual analysis approach, it explores how their chosen poems further detail such multifaceted aspects of resistance and oppression, identity and change. Faiz’s revolutionary optimism, Shakir’s feminism, and Jalib’s rebel poetry are a testament of Pakistan’s history of political change, gender disadvantage and collective struggle. The study also suggest themes of freedom, justice and stand, stressing that Language and Literature indeed leads to transformation. By historicizing Urdu Poetry, the study emphasizes the continued relevance of poetry in the function of socio-political transformation.
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Urdu poetry language social reality