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The image of a river in flood has diversely been employed by poets of the Subcontinent as a means to a personal, political and historical end. But the powerful be of rising and receding river water has also been explored as an end in itself through metaphors of destruction and creation, source and destination. consummation and eparation_ Gieve Patel in." N41,7 Very Own Cadaver" records an out of body experience in, "1 see my body float on waters that rush down the street" (p.93), and Eunice de Souza in "Outside Jaisaimer" talks of how, "we clatter over five river beds /broad, sweeping, dry" (41-2)_ Nissim Ezekiel in "Mid monsoon Madness" explores the element of spectacie as it rains "incessantly upon the night I listen to my own madness saying: smash it up and start again" 0345). This comparative study seeks to examine how two Pakistani poets namely Taub.). Rafat and Alarngir Hashmi, and two Indian poets namely A.K. .Ramanujan and Keki N_Daruwalla employ a diversity of technical, linguistic and structural devices to articulate a multiplicity of cultural, political and historical themes in their selective river poems.
Alma Raza. (2003) A Comparative Study of River Poems By Pakistani and Indian Poets , Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol XXXVIII, Issue 1.
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