saraapa aarzoo ham log, hain kaahe ko zindon mien
rahe hain ab talak jeete wale! dil maar maar apna
This shair is actually tragic in the sense that it talks about the insatiability of human desire. The poet highlights a paradox here and says...that if we are condemned to a life of an ever burning desire, our existence is also defined by a constant repression of what our heart desires (dil maarna!)...if this repression and a continual stifling of our desires is what life is then why should we be counted amongst the living...are we not part of the dead already? A strange relationship between death and human desire.
ghalib's shair --
hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle
bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle
is comparable to this.
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- Senior assistant professor at Zakir Husain Delhi College (Eve.) of the Delhi University
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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saraapa aarzoo ham log, hain kaahe ko zindon mien
rahe hain ab talak jeete wale! dil maar maar apna
This shair is actually tragic in the sense that it talks about the insatiability of human desire. The poet highlights a paradox here and says...that if we are condemned to a life of an ever burning desire, our existence is also defined by a constant repression of what our heart desires (dil maarna!)...if this repression and a continual stifling of our desires is what life is then why should we be counted amongst the living...are we not part of the dead already? A strange relationship between death and human desire.
ghalib's shair --
hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle
bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle
is comparable to this.
rahe hain ab talak jeete wale! dil maar maar apna
This shair is actually tragic in the sense that it talks about the insatiability of human desire. The poet highlights a paradox here and says...that if we are condemned to a life of an ever burning desire, our existence is also defined by a constant repression of what our heart desires (dil maarna!)...if this repression and a continual stifling of our desires is what life is then why should we be counted amongst the living...are we not part of the dead already? A strange relationship between death and human desire.
ghalib's shair --
hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle
bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle
is comparable to this.
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