Satire on Social Attitudes in Humorous Poetry of Dr. Imran Zafar

Abstract

Humor is the integral part of human life. To escape the seriousness and pain of life, Satire and Humor writers created various forms of humor to temporarily diminish the impact of the harsh realities of life. All these writers try to spread a smile on the faces of human being. Due to social disorders, issues and domestic situations; cause mental stress for the modern man. Such a job of humorist is like a good psychiatrist who strives to reduce environment pressure through his humor. This article describes the satires on social attitudes in the humorous poetry of Dr. Imran Zafar, who has currently become the source of reducing nervous conflict of human race. In his poetry he described the different aspects of social attitudes in a very derisory Humorous style. His books "CORONA MERY AGY" (کرونا مرے آگے) and "SHER AYA SHER AYA" (شعر آیا شعر آیا) are the masterpiece of humor writings. His sense of jocularity becomes more entertaining and fascinating while describing the life from different angles. This article not only discusses his writing style but also reflects the way Dr. Imran Zafar used to reflect aesthetic sense to show his inclination towards humor as well as he showed the unwanted aspects of social attitudes. After gone through his humorous poetry his satire on social attitudes has been revealed which described for the purpose of making reforms in the society.

Keywords

• Humor, Society, COVID-19, Distortion, Parody, Satire, Social inequality, humorist.