اختر الایمان کی شاعری اور سماجی توازن

Abstract

Akhtar ul Iman believed that poetry can play a role for social balance. He reiterated poetry is not a time pass or an action of passing the time, typically in an aimless or unproductive way.  In this perspective Akhtar ul Iman's poetry has been analyzed in this research paper with the help  of  Austrian/ American Social Psychologist Fritz Heider's Social Balance Theory.  Fritz Heider provided a solid base to learn how a social group evolves to the possible balance state. Relations among individuals characterize interactions occur in a social system. One important component among social agents in the relations is sentiment. Sentiments can result a social mitosis defined as the emergence of two groups, disliking exists between the two subgroups within liking agents. The overall sentiments among agents show the balance of a social system. The Heider’s balance theory is one of cognitive consistency theories which  remained popular for decades. This balance theory discussed the relations among individuals based on sentiment, which provided a ground to study poetry. Poetry is an artistic and meaningful expression of sentiments. Akhtar ul Iman’s poems have great significance in this perspective, which spans over a period of sixty years.