Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Insaan





Insaan is a long poem in the genre of epic by Jamiluddin Aali, the poet of jeevay jeevay Pakistan and aye watan ke sajeelay jawano. This poem is compiled of 10000 lines but only 7800 has been published rest has been withheld on the request of the poet that those must be published after his death!

This gigantic work started in 1955 and was first published in 2007. The book has 32 parts and starts with Iqbal's poem Insaan,

This is a very unusual book of poetry where the poet is continuously asking and posing question and he knows there is no definite answer for them only more and more remorse and new set of unanswered questions is the only outcome, but then one must keep on questioning, you never know which one succeeds in being answered.

Saturday, 19 February 2011

Barg-e-Ney



Barg e Ney is the first book of Ghazals of Nasir Kazmi (1925-1972) which was first published in 1952. Critics consider this to be one of the finest collection of Ghazals. Nasir Kazmi through the conventional vocabulary of Urdu ghazals has made new imagery that is endowed with a musical lyricism and that creates a mood that is extremely sensitive and evocative.

Saturday, 29 January 2011

Chand Chehra Sitara Aankhen


First published in 1974 this fabulous book of poetry from Obaidullah Aleem(1939-1997) was an instant success with young people because of its very lucid vocabulary and the emotional tenderness. Obaidullah Aleem was comfortable with genres of Ghazals and Nazms both, and he so effortlessly has written the most passionate and profound emotions which almost create an awe in the readers and one is so blissfully fascinated while reading this majestic work. And what a beauty is the title poem, always remembered, always admired and always loved.