Love Urdu Poetry Biography
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I was interested in the notion of a piece working with multiple timelines. On the one hand there is the timeline of the poems, ranging from the 1850s through 1993. But there is also the timeline of the lives of the characters we’re watching. We see the early blush of love, the pain of heartbreak, the realization (and consummation) of true love and finally the wistful recollections of the life that two people have built together. The fact that this chronological tale can be told using language that skips freely between a number of distinctly different eras speaks to the universality of this particular human experience.
In the period that followed, and before the launching of the Progressive Writers Movement in the 30s, mention should be made of Altaf Husain Hali (1837-1914) and Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938). Hali was a poet of the newer socio-cultural concerns and advocated 'natural poetry' that had an ameliorative purpose. His Musaddas is an important example of this. He was also a theorist who opened new frontiers in Urdu criticism with his Moqaddama-e-Sher-o-Shairi (Preface to Poetry) which equals Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads in importance, and even surpasses it in certain respects. He realized that with the impact of the West a new perspective was required. He, along with Mohammad Husain Azad (1830-1910), laid the foundations of a new poetry in 1867 under the auspices of Anjuman-e-Punjab, Lahore. Azad had asserted in the same year that Urdu poets should come out of the grooves of responses conditioned by Persian culture and root their works in the ethos of the land. Seeing no response to his pleas, he reiterated the same point seven years later on May 8, 1874 during his address on the occasion of the first mushaira of the Anjuman. These appeals failed to make and impact as sensibilities rooted in particular tradition are not easily altered even by impassioned pleas. Hali, creating a new taste for his age. Iqbal, with his remarkable religio-philosphical vision, and Josh Malihabadi (1838-1982), with his nationalistic and political fervour, produced exceptionally eloquent kinds of poetry that continue to reverberate over the years. Iqbal remained the most influential poet to achieve artistic excellence while putting forward a philosophical point of view, and his poetry, quite often, acquired the status of the accepted truth. A host of others Urdu poets and translators of English poetry who appeared on the literary scene during the first quarter of this century experimented with non-traditional poetic forms but they ultimately echoed sentiments and adopted forms that were more or less tradition-bound. They also looked towards the West, the traditional source of literary influence, but that was a world apart and too far to seek, They could reach only the Romantics who had already become outmoded in an age identified with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. A characteristically modern poem in form and value, tone and tenor, remained at best an intriguing possibility.Despite the popular view of most poets as solitary, hermetic people, communities are vital to most working poets – which is why, in any given week, thousands of open-mic and guest poetry readings take place in the United States. Whether we’re studying the history of poetry or listening to an individual poet, it’s enticing to make connections between two poetic periods, or between a poet and his or her influences. In doing so, we invariably set foot inside a poetic movement or community.Throughout history, there have been hundreds of major and minor poetic movements and communities. Major community-based movements – such as the Ancient Greek poetry schools, Provencal literature, Sicilian court poets, Elizabethan and Romantic poets, American Transcendentalists, Paris expatriate (Surrealist), and Beat poets – changed the course of poetry during and after their respective eras.
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Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
Love Urdu Poetry Urdu Poetry SMS Sad Love Pic Wallpaper Ahmed Faraz Wasi Shah Romentic Photos Pics
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