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The Motif of Love and Romance in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.comISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 18:10 October 2018 India’s Higher Education Authority UGC Approved List of Journals Serial Number 49042 ==================================================================== The Motif of Love and Romance in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai Farrukh Aziz Ansari, M.A. Political Science & M.Phil. Pakistan Studies Asifa Abbas, M.A. English & M.Phil. Applied Linguistics =================================================================== Abdul Karim Gadai (1901-1978) Courtesy: http://www.thesindhtimes.com/blogs/poet-unprivileged-abdul-karim-gadai/ Abstract Abdul Karim Gadai is the widely acclaimed modern poet of Sindh. He commands the singular rank in the legions of the Sindhi poets as far as the political/resistance poetry is concerned. Ideas in great profusion seem to be sprouting from his works. Major part of his poetic oeuvre relates nevertheless to the revolutionary resistance poetry. Unrecognized and rated too low notwithstanding, a worthwhile portion of his poetry also pertains to the subject-matter of love and romance. Love in its vast and varied subtleties and shades find an artistic expression through the verses of Gadai. The poet is possessed of exceptional prowess at clothing his words with colorful attire of pictorial and lively imagery and symbolism, which penetrates deep down the imagination of readers. His poems traverse the entire expanse of love including sensuous and spiritual love. The sexual urges are not frowned upon as taboos to be chased away. Rather, the poet believes animal passions are as natural as the other instincts in humans. Moreover, beauty in ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.comISSN 1930-2940 18:10 October 2018 Farrukh Aziz Ansari, M.A., M.Phil. and Asifa Abbas, M.A., M.Phil. The Motif of Love and Romance in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai 50 relation to the temporal love is highly eulogized in his poetry. The beloved is placed on the highest pedestal of perfection. She is extolled as a goddess of beauty. Furthermore, Gadai Sahab seems very much to be influenced by the pantheistic tradition, which is evidently demonstrated by the mystical flavor with which his poems are intimately imbued. Bluntness, simplicity of style, colloquial language, and absence of a profound intellectual intricacy are the glaring features of Abdul Karim Gadai’s poetry. This research paper, setting preset research objectives, attempts to delve into the elements of love and romance reflected in his poetry. Keywords: Gadai, Love, Romance, Spiritual love, Sensuous Love, Imagery, and symbolism. 1. Introduction Abdul Karim Lashari, popularly cherished today with his pseudonym ‘Gadai Sahab’ (1901-1978), occupies an inimitable stature in the galaxy of the modern Sindhi poets. He was born to a poor and illiterate family at Karimabad of tehsil Thul, Jacobabad district, Sindh (Pakistan). The luck had it, he somehow managed to acquire education up to matriculation (Sadhayo, 1981, 49). Afterwards, given the financial problems facing his family, he had to enter the government service to support his household. He dabbled in a number of jobs; however, finding things going against his grain there, he gave them up all one after the other (Syed, 2005, pp.104-107). He had begun composing poetry in the company of his friend Lutfullah Badvi/Jogi. However, after quitting job, he made poetry and journalism his career (Junejo, 2005, p.545-546). Gadai was a poet, historian, freedom fighter, political activist, dramatist, and a veteran journalist. Above all, he was a poet extraordinaire. He left an inerasable mark on the Sindhi literature. His poetry is scattered over three books. He also has a prose work to his credit in the form of the historical account of Jacobabad city. His works include: 1. Saanreeh Ja Soor (Poetry) 2. Pakhra Ain Panhwaar (Poetry) 3. Pemaane Te Pemaano (Poetry) 4. Khangarh Khaan Jacobabad Taaen (Prose/History) Hayat (2005) says that the greatness of Gadai lies not just in his tall stature as a poet. Rather, his entire life like a rainbow is an amalgam of the beautiful colors. Each and every aspect of his personality stands matchless. He was a versatile and prolific writer, a social worker, an eloquent orator, a political activist, and the like. A Bouquet having diverse fragrant flowers is what can be called Gadai (139). Gadai Sahab earned his recognition as the poet of resistance. The epoch shortly after Pakistan’s inception marked the beginning of his poetic journey in a real sense, as he took to giving vent to his sense of disappointment with the state of affairs in the post-colonial Sindh (Sadhayo, 2006, pp.39-43). Major part of his poetic opus has everything to do with disillusionment, and resistance – something he has commanded much applause for. As a point of fact, as stated in the foregoing lines, it was revolutionary poetry whereby late Gadai was catapulted into the limelight as the epitome of Sindhi resistance. Nevertheless, there is also a substantial portion of his oeuvre, albeit not so much appreciated or discovered, pertaining to the ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.comISSN 1930-2940 18:10 October 2018 Farrukh Aziz Ansari, M.A., M.Phil. and Asifa Abbas, M.A., M.Phil. The Motif of Love and Romance in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai 51 themes of love and romance. In the wayward days of his youth, he composed the poems, like most of the poets, adoring the eyebrows and tresses of his beloved. Many of his early poems center around the motif of ‘Ishq’ and were sung by his contemporary notable singers. As a matter of fact, Allah Rakhi, the celebrated Sindhi singer stole his heart. She used to sing his poems. Pangs issuing out from the solitary nights of separation from the beloved find an artistic expression in his verses. Gadai Sahab says (2007, p.99): English Translation: Counting the stars up did I pass the mountainous night! Living each moment in solitude and in separation from the beloved is Like passing through an inferno! i. Research Objectives The following research objectives have been set to be brought under the critical examination: 1. To investigate the elements of love and romance in the poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai. 2. To ascertain the concept and nature of sensuous and spiritual love as reflected by Gadai in his verses. 3. To appreciate the use of imagery and symbolism in Gadai’s romantic poetry. ii. Research Questions The present research paper poses the following questions: 1. How is love and romance reflected in the poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai? 2. What is the concept and nature of love expressed in Gadai’s poetry, sensuous and spiritual love? 3. How do the elements of imagery and symbolism run through the poetic oeuvre of Gadai Sahab? iii. Significance Abdul Karim Gadai’s name sticks out a mile in the throng of the modern Sindhi poets. The yeoman’s service he outstandingly performed for the Sindhi literature teetering on the brink of extinction was to revitalize it from the trauma of the partition. He was first and foremost the poet of resistance. Like the poets of the post-colonial era, he was disenchanted with the perpetuation of the colonial legacy. As a result, his verses articulated audacious dissent against the post-colonial state of Pakistan, its institutions, and political elite for the betrayal of trust. However, a substantial segment of his poetry deals quite eloquently with the subject of romance. In fact, one of his three poetic works “Pemaane Te Pemaano” is exclusively consecrated to the love poetry. However, as is the case with his political poetry, his verses concerned with romance have not been subjected to a scientific scholarly treatment either. Not a single research paper ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.comISSN 1930-2940 18:10 October 2018 Farrukh Aziz Ansari, M.A., M.Phil. and Asifa Abbas, M.A., M.Phil. The Motif of Love and Romance in the Poetry of Abdul Karim Gadai 52 evaluating Gadai’s poetics of romance is available. Thereupon, the present paper tends to provide a crucial breakthrough in the aforementioned aspect. iv. Methodology Essentially qualitative in nature, this study employs the grounded theory to the raw data available with the researcher in the form of the poetic texts of Abdul Karim Gadai. According to Hammond and Jerry Wellington (2013), grounded theory prefers inductive method to the deductive one thus allowing researchers the flexibility to, starting from the ground-up, observe patterns “lying rooted” within the data and draw conclusions from individual instances. In it, the process of classification and interpretation begins simultaneously with the data (p.82, 87). Grounded theory is of a greater utility and applicability when there is no theory to explain a phenomenon or process (Creswell, 2007, p. 66). The poetic opus of Gadai Sahab “Laat Barandi Rahay” is the compilation of original publications numbering three, of the poet. One of these three books “Pemaane Te Pemaano” is comprised in entirety of the love poems by GadaiSahab. Out of the available pool of the poetics of romance by late Gadai, an opposite sample of poems has been sifted and included in the critical scrunity with kid gloves. Like other approaches in qualitative data analysis, grounded theory also builds on coding and categorizing ending up with what may be termed ‘saturation’ – the point at which no further insight is likely to turn up by the continued exploration of categories (Hammond and Jerry, 2013, 83). Thus, the selected verses have been put to the extensive and exhaustive coding and categorizing process for the emergence of themes having a good deal of precision and high- fidelity. Initially by going through the poetic works of Gadai Sahab, the researcher familiarized himself with the tenor of his love/romance poetry.
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