Ghalib’s poetry

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Poets shared their experience of the lives in poetic verses. For this reason, history is full of the stories with passionate and deep love. The same idea was also the central point of one of the most famous poet of the history named Galib. He was a famous poet of the seventeenth century, and has several touching poetries in Urdu and Persian language on his credit. In his poetry, deep love seemed to be the main idea, but the true essence was the deep sorrow and a sad impression which made his poetry stands out among others. In his magnificent and truthful poetry, Ghalib unfolded the distinctive relation between the love and sorrow. He demonstrated this unique relation by sharing his personal stories, for example the love with the God, love and passion with the lover and with the love with his nephew. In these relations hopelessness, grief and depression was a common attitude which made his poetry exceptional.
As Ghalib believed in unity of God he mentioned “we believe in the unity of God for them our message is: abandon your rituals.” Indeed, he had a very different relation with the God. Readers often found him acted like a stubborn child with the God. His poetry gave the impression of the affectionate relation with the Creator. In his poetic verses, he used complaints and suggestions as the intense expression of the deep love, for example he wrote “Dear God, if there are punishments for the sins committed, there should also be reward for the sins carved, but not committed.”Along with that, he extended the dramatic images of deep sorrow and depression and used the vivid images to his depression, for instance “the foothold Lord, for desire’s second step? I found this barren world, this wilderness of possibilities to be an imprint ...

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... depression experienced made him so frustrated with life for example he said, “Those of you around me are fool to ask, Ghalib, why are you still living? It’s my destiny to continue o wish for death for few more days.”Hence, the tremendous amount of pain he faced after the death of his sons gave his poetry an ultimate depth and provided an image of love and affection for the reader.
Ghalib’s infused the new idea of love in his poetry .The different concept of closeness and frankness of the relationships in his poetry to show his love was distinctive. Along with that, he also portrayed the sorrow he faced in his life, and used it as techniques to beautify his poetry. This image of passionate love along with the intense sadness was unique combination of affection. This unique blend of emotions made his poetry dominant among others and captivates readers till today

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