Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

PROVERBS: THE CARRIERS OF ANCIENT WISDOM WITH TIMELESS PERTINENCE

Authors:

Urmi Satyan

Abstract:

The premise of proverb and its rich proliferation is vast. It ranges from social, traditional, cultural, political, geographical to economic sectors of human life and presents an opulent spectrum of various knowledge-packed truisms. Its wider span sees no boundaries of form, construction, grammar or any technical formula. Its structure, composition, creativity and capacity is rooted in the age old traditional way of substantiating a fact based content. Proverbs present the content more conversationally skilled. With a traditional and colloquial fragrance and cultural association proverbs are prospectively rich, inherently wisdom rich and assertively contextual in reference. With adoration for proverbs that have tiny construction and a huge scope for interpretation, this paper studies a few African proverbs that literally augment the linguistic beauty with metaphorical, allegorical and analogical expressions. 

This paper studies how proverbs cover all the sectors of human life and convey the proposed idea poignantly and accurately. 

Keywords:

proverbs, cultural association, metaphorical, allegorical, analogical 

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022