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THE INTERSECTION OF LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND IDENTITY URDU POETRY AS A REFLECTION OF PAKISTANI SOCIOPOLITICAL REALITIES

09 Pages : 105-113

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).09      10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).09      Published : Dec 2024

The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities

    This paper aims to analyze the social and political themes of Pakistani poetry in the Urdu language focusing on Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib. Employing a qualitative textual analysis approach, it explores how their chosen poems further detail such multifaceted aspects of resistance and oppression, identity, and change. Faiz's revolutionary optimism and Jalib's rebel poetry are a testament to Pakistan's history of political change, gender disadvantage, and collective struggle. The study also suggests themes of freedom, justice, and stand, stressing that Language and Literature indeed lead to transformation. By historicizing Urdu Poetry, the study emphasizes the continued relevance of poetry in the function of socio-political transformation.

    Urdu Poetry, Socio-Political Realities, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Parveen Shakir, Habib Jalib
    (1) Tazeem Imran
    Lecturer, Department of Pakistan Studies, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    APA : Imran, T. (2024). The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities. Global Political Review, IX(IV), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).09
    CHICAGO : Imran, Tazeem. 2024. "The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities." Global Political Review, IX (IV): 105-113 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).09
    HARVARD : IMRAN, T. 2024. The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities. Global Political Review, IX, 105-113.
    MHRA : Imran, Tazeem. 2024. "The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities." Global Political Review, IX: 105-113
    MLA : Imran, Tazeem. "The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities." Global Political Review, IX.IV (2024): 105-113 Print.
    OXFORD : Imran, Tazeem (2024), "The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities", Global Political Review, IX (IV), 105-113
    TURABIAN : Imran, Tazeem. "The Intersection of Language, Literature, and Identity: Urdu Poetry as a Reflection of Pakistani Socio-political Realities." Global Political Review IX, no. IV (2024): 105-113. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2024(IX-IV).09