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- Title
Reflections on Mortality in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai.
- Authors
Ansari, Farrukh Aziz; Abbas, Asifa
- Abstract
Abdul Karim Gadai was one of the complex poets of Sindh. Various threads of man's social, political, spiritual and personal life are drawn together in his verses. He masterfully penetrates many of the complexities of human life, among which, his views on mortality are solid enough to engage both the mind and the heart. As a human being, Gadai appears to be himself spooked by the apparition of death, something he is unable to get past. Reviewing his verses brings out the rich imagery employed by him to portray death. While it sketches a horrible picture of death - conjuring up a nightmarish phantom of destruction in our minds, at the same time, it too presents it as a great leveler. In fact, Gadai's subsequent views on death are manifestly influenced by the socialistic values penetrating every breadth of his thought. Per se, Abdul Karim Gadai seems to be less interested in reflecting philosophically or celestially upon the question of mortality or immortality. Accordingly therefore, immortality preoccupies him next to nothing. The poet's sole concern is terrestrial existence, and the latter's eventual inexistence. Gadai goes on the searing attack on man for his absurdity of drowning himself in the gush of materialism, as a result, turning a blind eye to one of the most crude truths, death. This paper presents a brief review of the Poet's reflections on mortality.
- Subjects
POETS; MORTALITY in literature; PSYCHOANALYSIS &; literature; POETRY &; society; PHILOSOPHY &; literature; ABSURD (Philosophy); MATERIALISM in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism