Abstract

This inventive research is work of genius indication in the domain of exploration, an effort in the direction of apprehending the linguistic and literary devices stylistically used in the Amrita Pritam’s Poem I Call upon Waris Shah Today; Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu. The content analysis approach was used to analyze the poem. The population of the research was contained on Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poetry; and for sampling her famous poem I Call upon Waris Shah Today; Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu was selected to analyze statically for the purpose of exploring stylistic devices used in this poem. The finding of the research revealed that the poetess used various linguistic and literary devices in this famous poem of Punjabi language. As the use of metaphor; use of metonymy, use of hyperbole, use of variety, use of personification, use of rhetorical devices can be observed in the poem which makes it valuable work.