Urdu Poetry - Haroon
Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. If not spoken throughout the country, its understood in everypart of Pakistan. Urdu is a rich language and has great treasure of literature. Either it is in the form of novel, short stories, drama or poetry.
Urdu Poetry is the very soft way to convey sentiments and poets are very sensitive human beings. Poetry is also known as Shayari in sub-continent. A poet can express his thoughts in one verse which might not be explained or expressed even in a thousand words article.
Like other traditions and languages, the history of Urdu shayari shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi mix. Urdu poetry includes plenty of fictions, nonfiction's, poetries composed by a number of indubitable authors and poets. Urdu poetry achieved its honor at the 19th century when some of the excellent poetries were transformed in to Ghazals. The evolutionary stage of Urdu poetry was during the 16th and 17th centuries when the world saw some exquisite Urdu poets getting into scene. One of the masterpieces of Urdu poetry was Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha. Tens of bollywood and lollywood movies were filmed based on the story of Heer Ranjha.
The main forms of Urdu poetry are Ghazal, Qasida, Two liners, Four liners and Nazams. People of Pakistan are undoubtedly loving, caring and peaceful. There is a popular quote that where there is lots of love there are always poets. If one goes out on a drive on the busy streets of Pakistan, he will be shocked to see the huge number of book stores out there, all having huge collection of Urdu poetry. That is how crazy Pakistani nation is for their literature and books. A traditional poetry book by a Pakistani poet is about under 150 pages. The title of the books often comes from the most popular poem from the book. The title of the main page contains a photoshoped photo of the poet and the beautifully written name of the poet. The prices of these poetry books range from 200 to 300 Pakistani rupees.
Urdu poetries are the best way to commune and exchange the eternal emotions. It is indeed the ideal way to bring forth hidden emotions and affair for your loved ones. Now a days, you dont need to drive down to the books shops and libraries to read Urdu poetry. Lots of resources have come forward with the huge collections of Urdu poetry. You can read it free on reputed poetry websites or you can purchase the poetry books from Amazon book store. Electronic versions of Urdu poetry books are also available for purchase on eBay and Amazon book stores.
Urdu poetry has produced greatest poets. As the Urdu language developed in Mughals time and the official language was Persian, therefore the classical poets of that times used Persian words in their poetry. The main example is Mirza Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib, who was a great poet of that time. Critics believe that his poetry is very difficult to understand due to Persian words. After Ghalib Mir Taqi Mir was another great poet. His poetry is extremely beautiful, simple, and heart touching. Akbar Allah Abadi was known as "Awaami Poet". He pointed out the problems of common man and social issues. So as Hali was.
Allah Mohammad Iqbal was another great poet. He felt the pain of Muslims of sub-continent and gave them a direction towards the independent Islamic state. His thoughts led to making of Pakistan in 1947, although he was alive to see it. Hundreds of books have been written about his poetry and research work is still in progress at different levels.
After 1947 so many popular poets have come across scene. Faiz Amhad Faiz is believed to be the greatest poets after Allama Iqbal. Ahmad Faraz, Perveen Shakir, Mohsin Naqvi, Syed Wasi Shah are the favorite poets of young generation in Pakistan.
Reading Urdu poetry is really fun-filled and exciting. You don't need to be philosophical at all to be a Urdu poetry fan.
Urdu Poetry is the very soft way to convey sentiments and poets are very sensitive human beings. Poetry is also known as Shayari in sub-continent. A poet can express his thoughts in one verse which might not be explained or expressed even in a thousand words article.
Like other traditions and languages, the history of Urdu shayari shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi mix. Urdu poetry includes plenty of fictions, nonfiction's, poetries composed by a number of indubitable authors and poets. Urdu poetry achieved its honor at the 19th century when some of the excellent poetries were transformed in to Ghazals. The evolutionary stage of Urdu poetry was during the 16th and 17th centuries when the world saw some exquisite Urdu poets getting into scene. One of the masterpieces of Urdu poetry was Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha. Tens of bollywood and lollywood movies were filmed based on the story of Heer Ranjha.
The main forms of Urdu poetry are Ghazal, Qasida, Two liners, Four liners and Nazams. People of Pakistan are undoubtedly loving, caring and peaceful. There is a popular quote that where there is lots of love there are always poets. If one goes out on a drive on the busy streets of Pakistan, he will be shocked to see the huge number of book stores out there, all having huge collection of Urdu poetry. That is how crazy Pakistani nation is for their literature and books. A traditional poetry book by a Pakistani poet is about under 150 pages. The title of the books often comes from the most popular poem from the book. The title of the main page contains a photoshoped photo of the poet and the beautifully written name of the poet. The prices of these poetry books range from 200 to 300 Pakistani rupees.
Urdu poetries are the best way to commune and exchange the eternal emotions. It is indeed the ideal way to bring forth hidden emotions and affair for your loved ones. Now a days, you dont need to drive down to the books shops and libraries to read Urdu poetry. Lots of resources have come forward with the huge collections of Urdu poetry. You can read it free on reputed poetry websites or you can purchase the poetry books from Amazon book store. Electronic versions of Urdu poetry books are also available for purchase on eBay and Amazon book stores.
Urdu poetry has produced greatest poets. As the Urdu language developed in Mughals time and the official language was Persian, therefore the classical poets of that times used Persian words in their poetry. The main example is Mirza Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib, who was a great poet of that time. Critics believe that his poetry is very difficult to understand due to Persian words. After Ghalib Mir Taqi Mir was another great poet. His poetry is extremely beautiful, simple, and heart touching. Akbar Allah Abadi was known as "Awaami Poet". He pointed out the problems of common man and social issues. So as Hali was.
Allah Mohammad Iqbal was another great poet. He felt the pain of Muslims of sub-continent and gave them a direction towards the independent Islamic state. His thoughts led to making of Pakistan in 1947, although he was alive to see it. Hundreds of books have been written about his poetry and research work is still in progress at different levels.
After 1947 so many popular poets have come across scene. Faiz Amhad Faiz is believed to be the greatest poets after Allama Iqbal. Ahmad Faraz, Perveen Shakir, Mohsin Naqvi, Syed Wasi Shah are the favorite poets of young generation in Pakistan.
Reading Urdu poetry is really fun-filled and exciting. You don't need to be philosophical at all to be a Urdu poetry fan.
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