The Protestive Tone of Mohsin Ehsan's Poetry

محسن احسان کی شاعری کا احتجاجی آہنگ

Abstract

Human consciousness implies that he not only has a deep understanding of good and bad, but also the appreciation of good and the expression of disgust against evil is a human nature. In every moment of life, he is faced with likes and dislikes. At every moment, he tries to make his next moment better than the last. His future brighter and more radiant than the present, and this thought becomes the justification for his progressiveness. It is natural that whatever stands in the way of his progressive thinking, man protests against it in various ways. Since literature is the artistic expression of man's thoughts and ideas, literature too cannot escape from protest. Since literature is the artistic expression of human thoughts and ideas, literature cannot escape from protest. Another important thing is that when literature is entrusted with the task of criticizing life, protest will inevitably arise in it. Because literature cannot tolerate social evils. In this way, literature itself becomes a protest. Since poetry is a more effective means of expressing feelings and emotions than prose, it is possible and has been possible to protest against social evils more effectively in poetic form. There is a strong tradition of protest in Urdu literature because when Urdu literature came into being, that era was marked by political, social, economic, and moral turmoil. Mohsin Ehsan's poetry covers a wide range of topics. Apart from other topics, there are plenty of protestive elements in his poetry. Both his poems and ghazals echo the protest. He exhibits resistance against all social evils. Resistance among the Urdu poets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the main reference of Mohsin Ehsan's poetry. In fact, the tradition of resistive poetry in Urdu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seems incomplete without Mohsin Ehsan.