SHAFIQ FATIMA SH’ERA KI CHAAR NAZMEN

شفیق فاطمہ شِعریٰ کی چار نظمیں

Abstract

Shafiq Fatima Shera is widely considered a ‘difficult poet’. That is the reason she couldn’t get the identity she deserves. Imagery, symbols, and allegories are fundamental elements in the poems of Shafiq Fatima Shera. They help in enhancing the emotional depth, thematic complexity, and overall impact of her poetry. Her use of imagery involves rich, descriptive language that appeals to the senses, painting vivid pictures, drawn from distant past, in the minds of her audience. She uses symbols to convey abstract concepts, such as power, love, good and evil, or mortality, in a more tangible and relatable way. They often contribute to the thematic structure and underscore the poems’ central conflicts or messages. Shera has extensively used allegories to explore complex ideas such as the nature of power, the struggle between good and evil, or the human condition. They are subtle, woven into the narrative rather than overtly presented. This article evaluates Shera’s four poems that play a decisive role in establishing her poetic genius.