CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POETIC THEMES IN ‘DOSTON KEY DERMEAN’ BY DR. ARSHAD MERAJ

Abstract

Arshad Meraj started taking part in the poetic gatherings of ‘Halqa Arbab-e-Zouq’ in 1990. His first collection ‘Katha Neelay Pani Ki’ was published in 2006. This anthology introduced a new poetic temperament and sensibility. When in 2019, his second collection ‘Doston Key Dermean’ got published, there was a unique taste for readers and enthusiasts of poetry in it. The extraordinary characteristic of Meraj’s poetry is that he gave a special place to modern and ultra-modern themes in his poetry. There is such a multi-colored fascination in this book as it exists in one day-to-day life. The human plight, practices, affairs, and tragedies especially become the center of his attention. There are candid and frank dialogues with friends which are kept in prospection. This meditation covers most of the contemporary issues. In ‘Doston Key Dermean’ we find a dissatisfied person who wails against modern life and attributes born as a consequence of it.