The Unique Style and Diction of Atta Shad’s Poetry

Abstract

Atta Shad poeticized and innovated a separate and unrivalled poetic diction and style in his two poetic genres of Ode and common rhymes. He began versifying Balochi poetry in 1956. At that time, all contemporary Baloch poets, excluding Sayyad Zahoor Shah Hashmi and Mohammad Hussain Unqa, fluently composed their poetic thoughts and ideas in Urdu poetic diction and style whereas Atta Shad explored an excellent zest of using Balochi Poetic Diction and Style. On account of his great mastery of pure Balochi Prosody, Atta Shad is famed and renowned for his innovative form of Balochi Poetic Diction and Style in the history of Modern Balochi Poetry. Today, nearly every Baloch poet aspires to compose poetry inspired by the excellence of Atta Shad’s poetic diction and stylistic innovations. Atta Shad's poetry is structured with an abundance of modern and classical vocabulary renewing uniqueness into their meanings, which can figuratively be seen and observed into the insights of allusion, metaphor, simile, irony, imagery, symbolism, personification, paradox and many others in a figurative language. In this research paper, all these literary elements of Atta Shad's poetry have been primarily focused and explored in a comparative framework.