'our glosses / wanting in this world' 'Can you remember?'Р”Р„nyone! 'when we thought / the poets taught' even theР”Р„fter we died-That was it!-God left us in the dark.Р”Р„nd as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain.Р”Вrought was over. What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain?Р”В«ut he has bought grief's lottery, bought even the rain. Ali compared each ghazal couplet to 'a stone from a necklace,' which should continue to 'shine in that vivid isolation.' Ali's ghazal 'Even the Rain' is excerpted here: However, it was the poet Agha Shahid Ali who introduced it, in its classical form, to Americans. Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Begum Akhtar popularized the ghazal in the English-speaking world during the 1960s. The German poet and philosopher Goethe experimented with the form, as did the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Other languages that adopted the ghazal include Hindi, Pashto, Turkish, and Hebrew. Among these poets, Ghalib is the recognized master. In the eighteenth-century, the ghazal was used by poets writing in Urdu, a mix of the medieval languages of Northern India, including Persian. The form has roots in seventh-century Arabia, and gained prominence in the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century thanks to such Persian poets as Rumi and Hafiz. Traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, ghazals are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians. The final couplet usually includes the poet's signature, referring to the author in the first or third person, and frequently including the poet's own name or a derivation of its meaning. Subsequent couplets pick up the same scheme in the second line only, repeating the refrain and rhyming the second line with both lines of the first stanza.

The first couplet introduces a scheme, made up of a rhyme followed by a refrain. Each line of the poem must be of the same length, though meter is not imposed in English.

He was given the titles of РІР‚СљDabir-ul-MulkРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљNajm-ud-DaulaРІР‚Сњ by Mughal emperor Bahadar Shah Zafar in 1850.The ghazal is composed of a minimum of five couplets-and typically no more than fifteen-that are structurally, thematically, and emotionally autonomous. 'Kulliyat-e-Ghalib Farsi' is a collection of around 11,337 poems of his person writings. His poetry collection is known by the name of РІР‚СљDewan РІР‚вЂњe-GhalibРІР‚Сњ. His poetry covers a wide variety of topics but sadness and despair are more common which depicts his struggles in life from an early age. He changed the style of poetry forever and even today new poets are inspired by his writings and style. His ghazals are sung by many popular singers and movies are made about his life and writings as well. He is very popular all over the world special in India and Pakistan where he remains popular generation after generation. He is regarded as one of the famous and most influential poets of Urdu language. His Persian writings are actually five times longer than his Urdu ones and he himself considered his Persian poetry to be more important and wanted to be remembered by his Persian writings but Urdu became the reason of his popularity. His writings are both in Persian and Urdu but he is more popular for his Urdu poetry. Ghalib started poetry when he was eleven years old. He was married at the age of 13 and had seven children which all died at a young age and all this contributed to despair and sadness which is often depicted in his writings. Ghalib after that lived with the parents of his mother. His father died when he was 5 years old and he then lived with his uncle Nasuallah Baig Khan who also died when Ghalib was nine years old. His real name is Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan but he is widely known by his pen names Ghalib and Asad. Mirza Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 in Agra in Mughal family.

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