It is perhaps due to this early bereavement that a sense of loneliness and a streak of Romantic rebelliousness are common to both the poets.īorn in Agra on December 27, 1797, in a family of Seljuk Turk soldiers, Ghalib chose to live by the pen and not the sword. Like Wordsworth, Ghalib, too, was orphaned at an early age. He was an iconoclast, a people’s poet just like William Wordsworth, a 19th-century Romantic poet from England. Ghalib, the Wordsworth of Urdu poetry, remains alive for poetry lovers because of his andaaz-e-bayan, which was distinctly different from others. It is the style of expression that often immortalises a poet. What stirs flurries of interest in a poet, gone for 150 years and whose language no longer enjoys the pride of place it once did, is something that’s bound to intrigue everyone. “Huyi muddat ki ‘Ghalib’ mar gaya, par yaad aata hai vo har ik baat par kahna, ki yuuñ hota to kya hota”. No wonder, every generation has interpreted Ghalib in its own way, and it’s the malleability of his character that makes him so relevant in each era The best part is that every time you read his shayari, a new shade of meaning comes out of it.
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