PROJECTION OF EXPLOITATION AND WOMEN OPPRESSION IN THE POETRY OF HAMID KHAN

Abstract

This paper focuses on the theme of exploitation and women oppression foregrounded in the poetry of Hamid Khan. In a patriarchal society such as India and Pakistan, it often happens that women are deprived of their basic rights. While analysing the poetry of Hamid Khan, the scholar has found the issue of women oppression foregrounded in the following poems:  N.A. Reflections, Circus Girl, Dualism, Winter, Deodasi, The Stranger. In this stylistic analysis only the tools of foregrounded were applied, i.e. deviation and parallelism. Moreover, the poems that projected the issue of women oppression and exploitation are given in the appendix.