Abstract
The paper aims at evaluating the text of Daud Kamal’s A Remote Beginning: one of the poet’s key poems from the perspective of the three levels applied here stylistically. Daud Kamal is one of the most prolific Pakistan’s English poets whose sublime art remained to be unnoticed during his life. The poet has a distinctive style of art. Kamal may be categorized to be one of the great mystic poets as his art seems replete with the flavor of Sufism. He focuses on spirituality and the mysticism and spiritual deadness are his recurrent themes. Moreover, Being a rural poet, his poetry overflows with Imagery; mostly natural imagery. His art is rightly understood to be enchanted by the world renowned Imagists like W.B.Yeats and Ezra Pound. His poetry emanates a unique colour of history and past. Strikingly he composes in fragments .The given poem would be analyzed on the three major levels of Stylistics: Pragmatics, phonological, and morphological levels. The exploration is an attempt to unfold concealed meanings and thematic layers in the selected piece of art for understanding of readers and researchers. The poet’s style is laden with imagery, symbolism along with simplicity of language. The focused poem unveils the conflict of the past with the present, optimism emerging out of pessimism, and the nostalgic memories of the poet etc. The analysis will be an addition to the understanding of the poem from the given thematic explanation
Muhammad Shakeel ur Rehman, Dr. Faria Saeed Khan . (2018) The study of Daud Kamal’s A Remote Beginning from the perspective of Stylistics , Balochistan Review, Volume XXXIX , Issue 2.
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