Abstract
The present position paper explores to examine select poems of Pakistani poet
and writer, Omer Tarin, in the backdrop of Mysticism/Sufism. Investigation of
the theme and trope under reference is carried out while randomly selecting
poems from Omer Train’s two books, “A Sad Piper” and “Burnt Offering”,
published in 1994 and 1996, respectively. The poetic oeuvre is analysed while
invoking and employing Reader Response Theory. Reader Response is a
creative-critical theory which suggests that a text gains and applies (meaning
and message) by the purposeful act of the reader’s reading and interpreting it
(Hindi, 2008). A myriad of manifestations of mystical elements and
experiences (symbolised and epitomised in the forms of death, ultimate truth,
the quintessence of human life, asceticism and soul’s spiritual voyage) are
inferred from the current research. His poetry reflects that whosoever aspires
for and digs out the reality of life—its meaning and message—and have
enthusiastically felt and experienced the itch for divine love (that inclines their
hearts to a ‘larger reality’) are, far more different than those who do not do
so. Thus, conclusively, the study construes that Tarin’s literary work richly
manifests mystical themes and theses, for which he owes much indebtedness to
his mystical masters, especially Sufi poets like, Maulana Rumi, Baba Bulleh
Shah, Baba Fareed, Rahman Baba and to name a few.
Dr. Tariq Khan , Dr. Inayat Ullah. (2019) Sufism/Mysticism Symbolized in the Select Poetry of Omer Tarin, Al-Azhāar, Volume 5, Issue 2.
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