REIFICATION OF LOVE: SELECT POETRY OF SAHIR LUDHIANVI

Dharmendra Kumar; Binod Mishra

doi:10.29121/granthaalayah.v12.i3.2024.5551

Authors

Dharmendra Kumar Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 247667 Roorkee, India
Binod Mishra Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 247667 Roorkee, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v12.i3.2024.5551

Keywords:

Marxism, Reification, Social Ontology, South Asian Literature, Urdu Progressive Writers

Abstract [English]

The article examines the select poetry and songs of Sahir Ludhianvi on the motifs of love, through the Marxist concept of 'reification'. It highlights, that institutions, especially Capitalism and the marriage system, strengthen the reified consciousness in which human beings consider love as an alienated entity. The feelings of love were polluted by Capitalist thought and imprisoned by the social norms; Sahir Ludhianvi aspired for a utopia, a Communist society, revolted against social norms and practices like 'marriage' etc. and deconstructed the capitalist conception of love. His artistic characteristics lie in the representation of 'beloved' in the sense of 'Communism', which can restore, in his eyes, the lost feelings of love. The study involves a textual analysis.

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