Critical Discourse Analysis of Bulleh Shah’s Poetry

Abstract

This newfangled research is masterpiece evidence in the dominion of research field, an exertion towards capturing the essence of Bulleh Shah’s poetry; a great Punjabi poet hailed from Punjab and also known as Rumi of the Punjab. The study undertakes critical discourse analysis embedded in the poems and kaafies of Bulleh Shah. “Kaafi is a poem on divine attribution and sometimes mystic beliefs” (Avais et al., 2018, p, 1). The evidence for this contemporaneous research was educed from the Bulleh Shah’s poetry by using different resources. The study uses some selected verses for sampling, which were taken from the different poems and kaafies of Bulleh Shah. The congregated statistics were later evaluated by using Fairclough’s CDA approach to capture the essence of Bulleh Shah’s poetry by highlighting Critical Discourse Analysis in his poetry. The study finds the discourse of equivalence and indiscrimination, discourse of love, discourse of purification, discourse of absence of pride and self-ego, discourse of societal injustice, and discourse of agonies and pains of women in the life span. In the end researchers presented some recommendations on the base of the results.