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Department of English Language and Literature, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Lecturer in English Govt. Post Graduate College for Women Bahawalnagar, Pakistan.
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Department of Entomology University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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The original concept of love may differ from person to person as well as society to society and
culture to culture. It can be interpreted differently. Love is a remarkable thing which has
bounded the society and the people always to each other. Mysticism would best be assumption
of as a gathering of individual practices, sermons, scripts, institutes, societies, and familiarities
aimed at human alteration, variously defined in different traditions. The person is known as
William James which has tried to clear the concept of mysticism. The research will find out how
the works of two different poets living in different continents and having opposite cultural
backgrounds are addressing the same ideas and incorporating similar notions about mysticism
and love. This study is devised out of curiosity weather William Wordsworth and Ameer Hamza
Shinwaris poetry contains the elements of mysticism and love. This study tries to see the
different dimension of his work and give the proper and the required conclusion.
Keywords: Theme of love and mysticism, individual practices, Wordsworth and Shinwaris Poetry, human alteration,
William James concept of mysticism
INTRODUCTION
English Literature is the most antiquated literature in the
history. It is the literature related to the specific area of
England or English language. There are different periods
of English literature descended and are named after
different movements of ages. The history of England is
hundreds of years old. Same is the case with the history
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of English literature. 5 century AD was the preliminary
era of English literature. In first, there was no written form
of English literature but later king Alfred paid attention to
English literature. This time of English literature is called
as Old English period. Old English literature is mainly
chronicle with the narrative sort of writing and also
some of the epics and poetry was also written in
literature
lives and
literature
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LITERATURE REVIEW
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DISCUSSION ANALYSIS
Ameer
Hamza
Shinwari
and
William
Wordsworth are two poets pole away from each
other. There are some resemblances and some
variances in both the poets in their works which
became the part of English literature. Mainly there
are two themes which will be focused in this
discussion. As with the passage of time, human got his
different forms. As the human came to the world, there
was first love of Adam and Eve. After that when one
son of Adam killed his brother, curse came. Same were
the different appearances to the domain with the passage
of time.
The works of both the poets are showing the
concept that poets are having the organic relativity with
each other, no matter if they are from different ages
and different areas.
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