LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Narratological Framework in Heer Waris Shah -
An Application of Valadimir Propp’s Narrative Situations

Kaneez Fatima Syeda

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Poetry is a kinship between the felt experience and the resources of language whatever language it might be. The question of form in poetry is not limited to the kind of meter or stanza pattern used. With pure poetry it means the inner structure of a piece of poetry; the underlying narratological framework of composition and style. Every language of the world is rich and fertile enough to cater a poetic mind touching the heights of imagination. It is the tinge of imagination, however, which varies from mood to mood; from soul to soul.

When a candle is lit, its light knows no direction, no clime. Its luminosity spreads like wave of fragrance equally in all directions either it is east or west. If the world has poets like Milton, Wordsworth and Coleridge in west, equally it has some mighty names in east which deserve to have same claim to be renowned. One such name is Waris Shah, the Punjabi sufi poet (1722-1792) whose folk-lore verse ‘Heer’ has much claim to be recognized as great an epic as Homer’s Odyssey or Spenser’s Fairy Queen. Waris Shah experienced mysticism right from tender age which shaped the focus of his poetry and his creative enterprise witnessed the great realities through the naked eye of imagination. “He repaired to Pakpatan (a town in Punjab) where he is known to have practiced religious austerities and had mystical experiences at the seat of the great sufi savant Sheikh Farid Shakarganj, his spiritual mentor.” (Singh, 1988: 8)

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Kaneez Fatima Syeda, M.Phil. Scholar
Assistant Professor of English
G C (W) Jhang
Punjab
Pakistan
GCU, Faisalabad, Pakistan
kaneezfatimasyeda@gmail.com
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