Negative and positive characters of Shah Latif’s poetry and their social utility
Abstract
Shah Abdul Latifs’ poetry has a great literary as well as social importance and it has its own multidimensional artistry. The base of his poetry is
mysticism. His mysticism is not traditional, but revolutionary. His philosophical
and mystic thought has been textured with such rhythm and reality that it created
an amazing ecstasy. The personality and intellect of Shah Latif is not only a great
source of inspiration for Sindhi society but from last two and a half centuries. It
would not be wrong to say that Sindhi poetry has been under the influence of his
authority.
The art of expression, diction, themes, symbols, imagery, characters and
values, with which Bhittai has blessed Sindhi poetry, is unique in the sense that the
words, phrases and metaphors used in his poetry have been picked up from the lap
of this land. He incorporated the history and culture of his soil into his self, penetrated into the hearts of the people inhabiting this land, took sorrows and pains of
the people as his own, planted dreams of his people in his own eyes and then made
his poetry as the realization of their long cherished dreams.
He chose all the characters of his poetry from his society and communicated his philosophy of life to them, in a familiar and folklore tone. This is the reason that his poetry is effective and appealing. In this paper, I have tried to find out
the positive and negative characters of Shah Latif’s poetry and analyzed their social utility with reference and proved that poetry of Latif is an authentic portrait of
Sindhi society and
Ahsan Danish. (2013) شاہ لطیف جا منفي ۽ مثبت ڪردار ۽ سندن سماجي ڪارج, Kalachi, Volume 16, Issue 2.
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