Folk Wisdom: The Role of figurative language in the Saraiki identity through animal imagery in poetry of Khawaja Ghulam Fareed
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study uses V.V. Vorobyev’s model of culturematic and linguocultural analysis to examine Khawaja Ghulam Fareed's kafis employs animal-based folk wisdom. It explores the ways in which animals, birds and wild creatures are utilized as socially embedded meanings that convey moral principles, religious beliefs, and collective folk wisdom, rather than just as artistic fun. Based on religious philosophy each animal represents a specific set of attitudes and convictions. The animals serve as carriers of collective knowledge, as demonstrated by the research, because these depictions are conveying folk wisdom. This study illustrates the use of folk wisdom in form of animals that are transmitters, narrators, and symbols of religious. Findings of the study shows that Fareed's Kafis shows religious with depictions of animal’s imagery playing a key role in the creation of ethical and philosophical discourses. Animals and birds serve as culturemes small messengers representing village life influenced by everyday encounters with the natural world. The research comes to the conclusion that Fareed's poetry is a prime example of folk wisdom is deeply woven into animal imagery.
DOI: 10.62019/hateqj95
Authors: Tahira Shabbir, Lubna Umar, Aqleem Fatimah
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7127056104