Love poetry in Urdu from the last quarter of the seventeenth century onwards consists mostly of "poems about love" and not "love poems" in the Western sense of the term. The critic/poet/writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqui explains that the convention of having the "idea" of a lover or beloved instead of an actual lover/beloved freed the poet-protagonist-lover from the demands of realism. In keeping with the conventions of the classical ghazal, in most of Ghalib's verses, the identity and the gender of the beloved is indeterminate. The first such elucidation or Sharh was written by Ali Haider Nazm Tabatabai of Hyderabad during the rule of the Last Nizam Of Hydrabad. Numerous elucidations of Ghalib's ghazal compilations have been written by Urdu scholars.
Although Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic achievements in Persian, he is today more famous for his Urdu Ghazals.
His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11.
#Urdu poem sana free#
"The prison of lige and the bondage of grief are one and the same,īefore the onset of death, how can man expect to be free of grief?" One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell : The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends, is a recurring theme in his poetry. In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself. In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition, he had an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy. Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. "Ishq par zor nahi, yeh woh aatish hai Ghalib, jo lagaaye na lage aur bhujhaaye na bhujhe"
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