PROJECTION OF RESTLESSNESS AS A SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUE IN THE POETRY OF HAMID KHAN

Abstract

This paper focuses on projection of restlessness as a socio-political issue 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 restlessness as a socio-political issue are: Load Shedding – I and Load Shedding – II. Here, Khan has dexterously pointed to the harsh life Pakistanis are going through. The poems foreground the psychological trauma caused by the lack of basic amenities of life. In a time when the whole world has been squeezed to a palmtop and every smallest or biggest household chore is subject to electricity, the people of Pakistan are groping for facilities in the dark. This, in turn, creates great panic and disappointment in human life. Khan has tried to attract the attention of the responsible people of Pakistan in this connection.