It is usually in six-lined stanzas with the rhyme aaaabb. Marsiya (or elegy), is nearly always on the death of Hasan and Husain and their families, but occasionally on the death of relatives and friends.As a rule it is longer than ghazal, but it follows the same system of rhyme. Qasida, a kind of ode, often panegyric on a benefactor, sometimes a satire, sometimes a poem dealing with an important event.Urdu ghazals for the most part are artificial and conventional. Strictly speaking it should have the same rhyme throughout. Ghazal, usually a short love lyric, sometimes a poem on a general subject.Mushairas (or poetic expositions) are today held in metropolitan areas worldwide. Following the Partition of India in 1947, it found major poets and scholars residing primarily in modern Pakistan Template:Dubious. The tradition is centered in the subcontinent. Syed Sibtey Husain Naqvi (Jauher), Dabeer, Iqbal, Zauq, Josh, Jigar, Faiz, Firaq and Syed Shmad Shah ( Ahmad Faraz) are among the greatest poets of Urdu. Meer, Dard, Ghalib, Anis, Mustafa Meerza Urf Piyare Saheb (Rasheed) Syed Sajjad Husain (Shadeed), Talib Khundmiri(– Jan 16 2011), Allama Dr. Literary figures as far back as Kabir (1440–1518 CE) and even Amir Khusro (1253-1325 CE) inspired later Urdu poets, and served as intellectual and linguistic sources. Like other languages, the history of Urdu poetry shares origins and influences with other linguistic traditions within the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani mix. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture. Breezy zephyr blew into English with the help of poets and playwrights, including William Shakespeare, who used the word in his play Cymbeline: 'Thou divine Nature, thou thyself thou blazon'st / In these two princely boys! They are as gentle / As zephyrs blowing below the violet.' Today, zephyr is also the sobriquet of a lightweight fabric and the clothing that is made from it.Urdu poetry ( Urdu: Template:Nastaliq Urdu Shayari) is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Zephyrus, the personified west wind, eventually evolved into zephyr, a word for a breeze that is westerly or gentle, or both. 'There was not even a zephyr stirring the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds.' - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876įor centuries, poets have eulogized Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, and his 'swete breeth' (in the words of Geoffrey Chaucer). Synonym: air, breath, breeze, puff, waft Antonym: gale, furious wind Example(s) of use 2: any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing.

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