The Representation of Socio-cultural Aspects in Atta Shad’s Poem “Shepank/Shepherd” and “Dil Greet O Shap Naret/ Heart Weeps and Night Moans”

Abstract

Shad was a poet, critic, playwright, researcher and an intellectual. In beginning he wrote poetry in Urdu and later in the Balochi language. Shad is considered the architect of modern symbolic Balochi poetry. He was inspired by the tutelage of Faiz Ahmed Faiz but soon felt the need to evolve his own style of poetry. His marvelous style gave him a prominent place in the literary quarters. His poetries are whole which cover all the aspects of Baloch Society. Hence, his poetries not only delight the readers but represent the socio-culture, economic life and many social problems of everyday life. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to demonstrate Atta’s art in the portrayal of socio-cultural approach through his poems, “Shepank/Shepherd” and “Dil Greet O Shap Naret/ Heart weeps and night moans”.The nature of the research is qualitative and researcher used textual analysis for the present study. However, the findings exhibit that Atta Shad as a whole discussed the social life of human being. His needs, wishes, deprivations, love and adventure of the homeland and even the sexual needs of the human being are discussed. And further, he also discussed the discrimination of the society based on the socio-cultural and economic aspects in the society.