Usages of satire in Kaiser Haq's poems

 

Kaiser Haq is a post-colonial modern writer and poet who widely used the literary technique of satire in a witty manner in his poetry to criticize the contemporary  society.  He attacks the convention of contemporary society and reveal the superficiality of them and shows that they have some faults and moral lacking as well though the usages of satire in his poems.

 

His poem " civil service Romance" is a direct satire on the civil service of our country. In our country people who are doing government jobs they are not loyal towards their job. They does not show any seriousness and responsibility toward their work. Through the poem " civil service romance " Kaiser Haq satirizes the system of our government officials where people are keen on dealing with unnecessary things  and how ridiculously they ignore the urgent files. In this poem we find that an officer is quite busy for making love with a new beautiful lady employee.  He does not care the emergency file, what he care is only making romance with a new joined lady employee. Thus, portraying this love making incidents in a sarcastic manner, kaiser Haq mock the political system of our governments jobs where employees show no morality or duty towards their job.

 

 Throughout this poem he mocks the traditional concept of our civil service where people are corrupted both morally and ethically. 

 

Furthermore,  his another poem " The logopathic reviewers's song" is also full of satirical elements in which he mocks the so called conservative critics who do not appreciate new writers or their writing using irony and sarcasm. As a modern writer kaiser Haq write poetry in a new manner.  He thinks that critics should appreciate the new kinds of writing.  But in the world of poetry there are some vindictive reviewer who shows theirs hatred to the new poet, who writes poetry without following the classical poetic style. 

In this poem,  logopathic reviewer is the speaker who consider himself as a superior in poetic world. He act here like he is only the critic who knows everything under the sun. He proudly compares himself with a sun an says that likewise sun his duty is to cherished the lonely poet like a Demolition Derby. According to Kaiser Haq , critics should not be vindictive while giving criticism to others' writing.  They should not be destructive rather they should be constructive while judging  new poets' writing. But in this poem kaiser Haq portrays a logopathic reviewer who only appreciate his writing he does not show any kinds of respect or appreciation to new poet. 

That is why, Haq ridicules on this kinds of critic Who does not wants to see change or new kinds of writing  in poetic world, and Who only show cruelty toward new writers because they don't allow them to make a room in the field of poetry.

 

As the reviewer proudly mention it,

 " I  am the greatest,  the one and only logopathic hit and runs critics".

 

There is a satire in those lines which is used to mock the so called poet who only values the writing which are written by following the traditional style of poetry.

 

Finally, his poem " A happy Farewell" is also a satire in which kaiser Haq criticizes the city people who does not appreciate poetry in a sarcastic and witty manner.  

Throughout the poem we find a vivid description of city life which represents all the negativity of city dweller. He gives a wide description of city Street and environment and ironically says that this overwhelming city and its inhabitants never appreciate creative writing or poetry.  He brings out the references of students politics where student repeat the boring same dialogue for theirs material gains. As we find in the poem" 

 

" But street are preferable to noise campus corridors, 

The politically minded always up in arms".

 

What he says here is that this contemporary society can show appreciation or interest only in the field of politics not in poetry. Therefore,  he satirizes on the contemporary city people and sarcastically says that this city is not a suitable place for practicing poetry.  He also mocks the so called romantic couple who only appreciate the physical love and does not show any respects to the platonic love. Thus, the poet makes sarcasm on the concept of contemporary young people love making and ironically says that he will no more practice poetry because he find his surrounding is very much cruel to poetic creation. Thus, he bade farewell from the world of poetry satirically because he realizes that writing poetry in cruel city is  unworthy and impossible. 

 In conclusion,  If we analyze the poems of Kaiser Haq, we find many reference of using satires; he uses this very literary style in his poetry because he wants social change as a modernist and appreciate the new social movement.