Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Urdu Poetry and Its Impact


Anything written in any language has its own effects on its readers. And it influences their emotions and feelings. Urdu is the most progressive language and it has dramatic effects on the social, culture and literature of the generations. The most important role of Urdu language is that it integrated the communities in the oriental societies. The defeaters and conquerors of the countries India  ,Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries has accepted the social ,cultural effects of their language. These conquerors were spoken Arabic and Persian.
And these regions were speaking many different languages. To interact with each other they needed one common language. .this interaction developed a common communicative language called Urdu
Basic source to spread Urdu language is poetry. Poetry played a very important role for establishment of the language As T.S. Eliot says, "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly." Sixteenth to till nineteenth century has the masters of Urdu poetry .it is the golden time period for the Urdu poets. The poets of  these days are following the grand masters.    

The noticeable effects of poetry are in the “Gazal” it also has romantic effects. People of different languages like to listen and read “Gazal”. Our history has the masters of the “Gazal”. The most popular names of the Gazal master are Mirza Galib, Mir Taqui Mir, Etc. nazam (poem) is also a form of poetry. Nazam (poem) depicts a continuous single theme ad mostly associated with philosophy. Nazam has marvelous social and political effects 

Nazam has changed the social and political structure of nations. The most popular nazam writers are Allama Muhammad Iqbal and josh. Both nazam and Gazal played a tremendous role to transform the thoughts of individuals and groups alike. In the history of Urdu literature Josh Mallihabadi was the grand poet who’s contribution is remarkable in the Urdu literature. Other forms of Urdu poetry are also contributed but for the short time period. The mixture of Arabic and Persian gave the richness to Urdu but with the concept of modernization and popularity of west culture in the East Urdu language in distorting

No comments:

Post a Comment