Post by brijinder on May 25, 2007 9:15:47 GMT 5
A case for azaad/nacri shayri
First of all,I apologise for writing in english in this urdu forum.As i have informed earlier too,urdu is not my mother tongue but my love.Poetry,in urdu,happens to me though many times I have to grope for the right words.But I am not very comfortable in urdu prose.I hope that the readers will be magnanimous enough to excuse me for this handicap of mine n I will be tolerated with grace.
I came to love urdu poetry through the traditional lyrical poetry.I came to be mesmerised by Faiz,Sahir,Kaifi,Faraaz,parvin,Josh n what not.They started me on a wonderful aesthetic journey.With the passage of time as I explored,I came to know n then appreciate newer forms of poetry which donot adhere to traditional forms BUT are still valid modes of expression.This is human being's thirst for experimentation n exploration which brought in many forms in all branches of Art.Free verse has already got a very respectable place in almost all of the world's litrature.
When i started browsing urdu poetry sites,one thing that struck me as highly disturbing was the way poetry which was not "pabaNd" of wazan n behr was being consigned to the amateuris sections.It was as if the ONLY criteria for good poetry was the mathematical precision of the arrangement of words.It was sad n amazing thing at the same time.When the litrature world over is undergoing explosive changes n experimentations,when our own great poets like Faiz,Faraaz,Kaifi,Parvin etc had attempted poetry in free verse,we the net denizens seemed to be living in past.We at few sites were refusing to acknowledge these winds of change.
What are the aesthetic parameters of a good poem?To me,the main perquisite of a mature poem are the emotional intensity,intellectual clarity or psychological insights.A poem which is so intense that it pulsates and have a life of its own.It doesnt matter if it obeys the traditional principals of wazan n behr.We can find numerous poems which are very precise n mathematical in their arrangement of wobut are essentially forgettable poems.
So my submission is to measure the poetry on some aesthetic parameter as is being done in other litratures.We have forums for mature poetry which categorically state that the main perquisite is "shayri jo wazan aur behr maiN ho"Plz let us follow the aesthetic and not mathematical parameters.If the great poets could attempt to compose in free-verse then we will be being just hypocrites not to do so.I have been posting free verse poems of such great poets recently just because of it.
The idea is to start an honest n introspective debate within each of us.I hope I will succeed in that.This is my humble submission.
Regards
Brijinder"Sagar"
First of all,I apologise for writing in english in this urdu forum.As i have informed earlier too,urdu is not my mother tongue but my love.Poetry,in urdu,happens to me though many times I have to grope for the right words.But I am not very comfortable in urdu prose.I hope that the readers will be magnanimous enough to excuse me for this handicap of mine n I will be tolerated with grace.
I came to love urdu poetry through the traditional lyrical poetry.I came to be mesmerised by Faiz,Sahir,Kaifi,Faraaz,parvin,Josh n what not.They started me on a wonderful aesthetic journey.With the passage of time as I explored,I came to know n then appreciate newer forms of poetry which donot adhere to traditional forms BUT are still valid modes of expression.This is human being's thirst for experimentation n exploration which brought in many forms in all branches of Art.Free verse has already got a very respectable place in almost all of the world's litrature.
When i started browsing urdu poetry sites,one thing that struck me as highly disturbing was the way poetry which was not "pabaNd" of wazan n behr was being consigned to the amateuris sections.It was as if the ONLY criteria for good poetry was the mathematical precision of the arrangement of words.It was sad n amazing thing at the same time.When the litrature world over is undergoing explosive changes n experimentations,when our own great poets like Faiz,Faraaz,Kaifi,Parvin etc had attempted poetry in free verse,we the net denizens seemed to be living in past.We at few sites were refusing to acknowledge these winds of change.
What are the aesthetic parameters of a good poem?To me,the main perquisite of a mature poem are the emotional intensity,intellectual clarity or psychological insights.A poem which is so intense that it pulsates and have a life of its own.It doesnt matter if it obeys the traditional principals of wazan n behr.We can find numerous poems which are very precise n mathematical in their arrangement of wobut are essentially forgettable poems.
So my submission is to measure the poetry on some aesthetic parameter as is being done in other litratures.We have forums for mature poetry which categorically state that the main perquisite is "shayri jo wazan aur behr maiN ho"Plz let us follow the aesthetic and not mathematical parameters.If the great poets could attempt to compose in free-verse then we will be being just hypocrites not to do so.I have been posting free verse poems of such great poets recently just because of it.
The idea is to start an honest n introspective debate within each of us.I hope I will succeed in that.This is my humble submission.
Regards
Brijinder"Sagar"