Abstract
Poetic imagery is an interesting field that sometimes probesinto
depth to see,“how the images strike responsively on resonant
points in the racial unconscious, producing the emotive power
of archetypes and myth” (Holman & Harmon, 1986, p. 250).In
this connection, the present study focuses on Taufiq Rafat’s
Wedding in the Flood where the story is related through an
omniscient narrator giving voice to the perceptions of
fourdifferent personas in the poem along with his own.
Stylistically theycorrespond to the pentagonal-pattern of classic
elements in Eastern symbology namely earth, air, water, fire,
and -an additional element to the medievaltheory of ‘humours’ -
ether. In a folk-tale-like narratorial stance, all of
themmentiontriadic-dowry-items of the bride that powerfully
invokes the memory of three archetypal women in Punjab folk
lore.
Komal Shahzadi. (2015) A LEGACY OF FOLK-BRIDES: THE TRIADIC-DOWRY IN WEDDING IN THE FLOOD, Mayar , Volume 13-14, Issue 2 .
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