Abstract
This study focuses on the critical evaluation of the most frequent metaphors in the
Pakistani English poetry (PakEP) of 21st century. The poetic corpus includes the
works of the maximum number of the poets from the whole of the country (sixty in
number). They all belong to the post 9/11 time period. The corpus has thus two prime
concerns as recency and representativeness. The researcher sets three objectives;
first, which are the most frequent metaphors in the 21st C Pakistani English poetry;
second, what the particular mood do these metaphors exhibit; third, to which school
of poetry do these poets show their affiliation. With the use of AntConc3.2.1, the
frequency, the concordance and the collocation of the most frequent metaphors have
been discovered. Parallel to these, the description, interpretation and explanation of
the metaphors have been conducted with the help of Fairclough’s (2000) model. The
present study indicates that the recent English poetry of Pakistani young lot is
thematically overwhelmed by love, heart and life. Secondly, despair and frustration
are the moods of such poets in general. Thirdly, Pakistani English poetry is more
akin to classicism and romanticism than modernism.
Muhammad Riaz Gohar, Dr. Behzad Anwar, Dr. Muhammad Afzal. (2019) Metaphors We Live By: A Critical and Corpus Based Analysis of 21st Century Pakistani English Poetry, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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