“Everything Built on Moonshine”: Love and Revolution in Iqbal’s Islamic Modernist Poetry and Faiz’s Socialist Verse

Majeed, Javed

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“…Considering poetry one of the most essential approaches to disseminating ideas, Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem Mwjh se Phli si Mohabbat has been studied by several authors from several points of view i.e., Loomba, 2018;Hussain et al, 2021;Faiz et al, 1974;Narang, 1985;Steele, 2013;Sultana, 2016;Hayat and Rai, 2016;Husain, 2013;Benin, 2020;Yaqin, 2013;Alexander, 1992;Majeed, 2021;Manuel, 2017;Oesterheld and Lötzke, 2013;Parvaiz, 2017;Molteno, 2009; to adduce a few who studied perspectives such as analyzing the signature style of the poet, recurrent themes, and ideological standpoints in the poem.…”

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Analysing Meaning Potential in Verbal Art: A Discourse-functional Perspective on Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Tehseem

Faiz

Nawaz

2022

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This paper aims to explore the construal of socio-political meanings in Faiz Ahmad Faiz with a focus on his artistry work titled ‘mujh se pahli si Mohabbat’ to help unfold higher patterns of organization at the level of transitivity choices to reflect the underlying perspective.Drawing on the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) for the transitivity analysis (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014) the study highlights the meaning potential encoded through the process types. As referred above, the selected poem comprises twenty-nine clauses that were written originally in Urdu language but for the ease of the readership, the transliterated text is adopted from Hasan (2009). She (ibid) proposes a theory of verbal art that extends the higher level of linguistic patterns to encode sublime meaning potential. The analysis shows that apparently, the poem appears to express the plight of circumstances but it is a tragic tale of misery and despair propounded at the crossroad of love and revolution. The findings also reveal that the dominant process type in the poem is the existential one with the male protagonist narrating the tale of socio-cultural agonies and the subsequent is the material process type which posits the significant meaning potential regarding inflicting pain in apolitical turmoil.

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