Pashto کاظم خان شېدا او تخيلاتي شاعري
Kazim Khan Shaida and Imiginative Poetry
Abstract
Poet founds the charateristics of things in the Universe through imagination and extract new meanings out of them. Imagination is a poetic power and God gifted quality which can be improved and polished through knowledge and experience. Poetry is incomplete without imigination. Sometimes, the poet uses his imagination to speak in such a way that an ordinary reader cannot understand its literary meaning. Poet give new shape to the concepts in his mind and context though imaginative power. Kazim Khan Shaida, a well-known classic Pashto poet is famous for intricacy and complexity in his poetry. This study have done by applying closed reading method and found that Shaida's intricacy posits in his stronger imaginative power; and for this reason, understanding his poetry and extracting plausible meaning out it is not easy for an ordinary reader. His literay work is one of the best example of skilled use of imagination in poetry.