History of Urdu Poetry - Shayari

Urdu: اردو شاعری Urdu Shayari) is a rich custom of verse and has various sorts and structures. Obtaining much from the Persian dialect, it is today a vital piece of Pakistani and North Indian society.

Like different dialects, the historical backdrop of Urdu verse offers causes and impacts with other etymological conventions inside the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani blend.

Artistic figures as far back as Kabir (1440–1518 CE) and even Amir Khusro (1253-1325 CE) enlivened later Urdu artists, and served as educated and phonetic sources.

Meer, Dard, Ghalib, Anis, Mustafa Meerza Urf Piyare Saheb (Rasheed) Syed Sajjad Husain (Shadeed), Talib Khundmiri (Feb 14, 1938 – Jan 16 2011), Allama Dr. Syed Ali Imam Zaidi (Gauher) Lucknavi.

Syed Sibtey Husain Naqvi (Jauher), Dabeer, Iqbal, Zauq, Josh, Jigar, Faiz, Firaq and Syed Shmad Shah (Ahmad Faraz) are among the best artists of Urdu.

The convention is focused in the subcontinent. Taking after the Partition of India in 1947, it discovered significant writers and researchers dwelling fundamentally in cutting edge Pakistan. Mushairas (or graceful pieces) are today held in metropolitan regions around the world.

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The Principal Forms Of Urdu Poetry & Shayari Are:

Ghazal, for the most part a short love verse, some of the time a sonnet on a general subject. Entirely talking it ought to have the same rhyme all through. Urdu ghazals generally are fake and customary.

Qasida, a sort of tribute, regularly laudatory on an advocate, now and again a parody, here and there a ballad managing an essential occasion. Generally speaking it is longer than ghazal, yet it takes after the same arrangement of rhyme.

Marsiya (or epitaph), is about dependably on the demise of Hasan and Husain and their families, however periodically on the passing of relatives and companions. It is generally in six-lined stanzas with the rhyme aaaabb. The recitation of these requiems in the initial ten days of Muharram is one of the best occasion in Muslim life. A completely created marsiya is dependably an epic. The well known marsia authors who acquired the convention of Mir Anis among his progressive eras are Mir Nawab Ali 'Munis', Dulaha Sahab 'Uruj', Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab 'Rasheed', Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns, Ali Nawab 'Qadeem', Syed Sajjad Hussain "Shadeed" Lucknavi, Allama, Dr.Syed Ali Imam Zaidi, "Gauher" Luckhnavi the(great grandson of Mir Babber Ali Anis).

Masnavi, in the lion's share of cases a wonderful sentiment. It may stretch out to a few thousand lines, however by and large is much shorter. A couple masnavis manage conventional residential and different events. Mir and Sauda composed some of this kind. They are dependably in brave couplets, and the normal meter is bacchic tetrameter with an iambus for last foot. The Religious masnavi Histori of Islam (Tarikh-e-Islam Az Quran) composed by Dr. Syed Ali Imam Zaidi Gauher Lucknavi.

Tazkira, historical compilation, quite often of verse alone. This is frequently a minor gathering of names with a line or two of data about every writer, trailed by example of his creation. Then again it might be the historical backdrop of Urdu verse with bounteous illustrative concentrates. The best tazkiras give personal points of interest, however fall flat in artistic feedback, and we get little thought of style or poetical force, still less of substance of lyrics. Indeed, even the huge treasurys don't deliberately survey a creator's work. The majority of them have the names in sequential order request, however maybe a couple favor recorded request. The lion's share cite just verses, and the citations, ordinarily picked aimlessly, don't outline verse.

Nazm Urdu nazm is a significant piece of Urdu verse. From Nazeer Akarabadi, Iqbal, Josh, Firaq, Akhtarul Iman to down the line Noon Meem Rashid, Faiz, Ali Sardar Jafri and Kaifi Azmi. They have secured regular life, philosophical considering, national issues and the unstable predecament of individual person.

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Gathering types of Urdu Poetry

The Principal Collection Forms Of Urdu Poetry Are:

Diwan, a gathering of sonnets, mostly gazals.

Kulliyat, truly a complete gathering of lyrics, however regularly connected to any accumulation containing ballads of different sorts. Hence, Akbar Allahabadi distributed three kulliyats.

Development Urdu verse frames itself with taking after essential fixings:

Lure (بیت)

Lure ul-Ghazal (بیت الغزل)

Beher (بحر)

Diwan (دیوان)

Husn-E-Matla (حسنِ مطلع)

Kalam (کلام)

Kulyat (کلیات)

Maqta (مقطع)

Matla (مطلع)

Mavra (ماوراء)

Misra (مصرع)

Mushaira (مشاعرہ)

Qaafiyaa (قافیہ)

Radif (ردیف)

Sher (شعر)

Shayar (شاعر)

Shayari (شاعری)

Tah-Tul-Lafz (تحت اللفظ)

Takhallus (تخلص)

Tarannum (ترنم)

Triveni (تریوینی)

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Types

The real types of verse found in Urdu are:

Doha (دوہا)

Fard (فرد)

Geet (گیت)

Ghazal (غزل), as rehearsed by numerous writers in the Arab convention. Mir, Ghalib, Dagh are no doubt understood authors of ghazal.

Hamd (حمد)

Hazal (ہزل)

Hijv (ہجو)

Kafi (کافی)

Madah (مدح)

Manqabat (منقبت)

Marsia (مرثیہ)

Masnavi (مثنوی)

Munajat (مناجات)

Musaddas (مسدس)

Mukhammas (مخمس)

Naat (نعت)

Nazm (نظم)

Noha (نوحہ)

Qasida (قصیدہ)

Qat'ã (قطعہ)

Qawwali (قوالی)

Rubai (رباعی) (a.k.a. Rubayyat or Rubaiyat) (رباعیات)

Salam (سلام)

Sehra (سہرا)

Shehr a'ashob (شہر آشوب)

Soz (سوز)

Wasokht (وسوخت)

Outside structures, for example, the poem, azad nazm or (Free verse) and haiku have additionally been utilized by some cutting edge Urdu artists.

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Takhallus (Pen Name)

Pseudonyms (Takhallus)In the Urdu lovely convention, most artists utilize a nom de plume called the Takhallus (تخلص) . This can be either a piece of an artist's given name or something else received as a character. The customary tradition in recognizing Urdu writers is to say the takhallus toward the end of the name. The word takhallus is gotten from Arabic, signifying "completion". This is on account of in the ghazal structure, the artist would generally fuse his or her pseudonym into the last couplet (maqta) of every ballad.

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Script (In Writing)

Scripts utilized as a part of poetryIn Pakistan, Urdu verse is composed in the standard Nasta'liq calligraphy style of the Perso-Arabic script. In any case, in India, where Urdu verse is exceptionally prominent, the Perso-Arabic is regularly discovered transliterated into the Devanāgarī script, as a guide for those Hindī-speakers, who can appreciate Urdu, yet can't read the Perso-Arabic script. With the beginning of the web and globalization, this verse is regularly discovered written in Roman Urdu today.

Illustration:

The accompanying is a verse from a Urdu ghazal by Sher Khwaja Mir Dard

Devanagari:

दोस्तों देखा तमाशा यहाँ का बस,तुम रहो अब हम तो अपने घर चले। Roman Urdu:

dosto dekhā tamāśhā yahāN kā bas.tum raho abdominal muscle murmur to apne ghar chale English interpretation:

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Different:

Snare Bazi, an amusement utilizing Urdu verse

Maulvi Abdul Haq - father of Modern Urdu

Dr. Rafiq Hussain was the first researcher in unified India to acquire a Ph.D in Urdu Poetry of Allama Iqbal in 1943.

Rundown of Urdu writers

Persian and Urdu

Dynamic Writers' Movement

Rekhta

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