South-Asian niche as the poetic helicon of Taufiq Rafat: a metapoetic study by Asim Aqeel, Saba Rasheed, Hafiz Nauman Ahmed

“…This paper presents Eva Müller-Zettlemann’s theoretical pronunciation of meta-poetic elements, i. e., poetic inspiration, poetic process, and meta-poetic metaphors, at play in the metalyrics of Taufiq Rafat from his anthologies Arrival of the Monsoon: Collected Poems 1947-78 (1985) and Half Moon: Poems 1979-1983 (2008). …”
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Socio-Psychological Factors in Taufiq Rafat’s “Wedding in the Flood” by Muhammad Amjad

“…This article focuses on exposing the socio-psychological factors through examining the use of language in a free verse poem ‘Wedding in the Flood’ by Taufiq Rafat who tried to present different aspects of Pakistani culture in the poem. …”
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Loss of Meanings of Cultural Metaphors: An Analysis of Taufiq Rafat’s Translation of Bulleh Shah’s Punjabi Poetry by Sanna Asghar

“…Two poems of Bulleh Shah translated by Taufiq Rafat were under examination. This was a purely qualitative research where data has been collected from books, libraries, and research journals. …”
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The language of cultural ecopoetics : a linguistic articulation of ecological framing in The Arrival of Monsoon by Riaz, Shahida, Mahmood, Rasib, Habib, Akhter

“…The poem, The Arrival of Monsoon (1985) by Taufiq Rafat, is selected as it fulfills Buell (1995)’s criteria of ‘Environmental Text’. …”
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