Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;aopicho@yahoo.com)
It is freedom of universal poetry And the political democratic space In the economic government of poetry By the poetrizens for the poetrizens. Ascription to which I get Faiz of Urdu a true poemocrat The male mistress of poetry’s counter-narrative To its extremism in the Nerudaistic poemocracy Known in the West as the 'Neruda of Urdu poetry Faiz wrote romantic lyrics with a different a touch He fused it with contemporary social issues Progressive Pakistanis have commemorated His jolly and poemocratic 29th death anniversary Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a progressive Pakistani poemocrat Has inspired almost three generations of Pakistanis He believe in secular and liberal values poemocratically A proclaimed poemocratic Marxist Faiz received The Lenin Peace Prize from the then Soviet Union in 1962 The poet was also involved in many political struggles And was jailed by Pakistani rulers a number of times.
Good poetry can always be used as an agent for self- awareness In terms of the poemocratic quality of his poetry And his poetical expressions he is unparalleled In the whole history of Urdu poemocracy. His metaphors, the string of nouns that he uses, The rhythm and the structure will never go stale Faiz will remain relevant mostly because of his themes - He wrote extensively about human misery, Despair, squalor, Inequality and injustice These are timeless democratic issues These are universal issues and are not restricted to a parochial nor Provencal country or group.
Good poetry can always be used as an agent for awareness, But Faiz is more relevant in this context Because he speaks in contemporary poemocratic idiom But let me be clear that Faiz is exceptionally among the equals Poemocratic like Meer, Ghalib and Hafiz make us open-minded They make us appreciate and cherish the poemocratic diversity And differences that we have in the world mother earth’s sire.
Faiz weeps over oppressive problems in Africa And talks about the oppressive racism in Palestine issue. Faiz’s poetry makes us feel the pain of others Indeed Faiz's poetry serves the world a bonanza ever As a counter-narrative to extreme Islamist ideologies Faiz and Neruda both belonged to the poor World The conditions he was dealing with during his life, was The colonial hangover as it was Something Neruda also faced in his country.
Faiz talks about the concrete realities around him And not only about some imaginative issues This is also true of poemocratic Pablo Neruda They both deal with real issues of bread and butter, Of poverty, hunger, nakedness, jiggers, peace and security. Not only are the sensibilities of the two poemocrats is ditto, But also the socio-political fabrics they lived under Kudos to German poetry and fiction That always had good influence On the poemocratic Urdu-Chilean literature Soul literature has inspired countless Urdu writers and poets. Its influence was starker during the 20th century Faiz was not only inspired by soul writers and philosophers, But also by praxis of poverty and agonies of diverse oppression.