INACTIVITY AS A SOCIAL MENACE IN THE POETRY OF HAMID KHAN

Abstract

The concept of inactivity is foregrounded in most of the poems of Khan. This paper focuses on the theme of inactivity as a social menace foregrounded in Khan’s poetry. For this purpose, both the collections of Khan, “Velvet of Loss” and “Pale Leaf (Three Voices)” are used for the data understudy. Only those poems are selected that bear the foregrounded theme of evil. The poems that foreground inactivity as a social menace are: Winter, Duress, The Winter of 1992, Romanticism, We Are Dreamers. Khan has indirectly pinpointed that the people of Pakistan, chiefly the modern youth, shun to come out of their comfort zone and do something of repute. Most of their time is wasted. This current of reformation is running in all the poems understudy.