4.1.2: Poetry of Iqbal:
Bang-e-Dara (The Call of the Marching Bell) his first collection of Urdu poetry. In the poems he reflects patriotism and images of nature, Iqbal writes poems about the historical and cultural heritage of Islam and the Muslim community with a global perspective.
Iqbal’s poetry, particularly selected poems may therefore, be characterized as descriptive poetry mainly related to nature: sun, moon, stars, clouds, morning, evening, trees, flowers, etc.; but full of mystical symbolism. He can scarcely be described as a poet of human relations and much more interested to show the relationship between man and nature. He paints nature in lyrical modes and draws strongly from poetic similes and metaphors drawn from Ghazal
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Iqbal showed a strong predilection for the contrast pairs which are already common in classical usage but which he selected from out his deep belief in the polarity of life: it is not so much the Moth and the Candle or the Rose and the Nightingale which are found comparatively rarely in his lyrics, but abstract pairs like:
• Love and Reason,
• Kingdom,
• Ĵamal: (Divine Beauty),
• Ĵala:l (Divine Majesty),
• faqr (Spiritual, Non-materialistic),
• Xalvat (Solitude)
• Ĵalvat (Manifestation).
These contrast pairs from a typical part of his poetry and inserted into verses with a metre which allows the hemistich to be split into parallel halves – can be understood and memorized very easily by everybody.
These are some key symbols which Iqbal has used in his poetry. In general, his poetry is, in comparison with the stylistic complication of other Oriental poets, rather straightforward, and free from exaggerated symbolism or simple pieces of words. He uses the classical literary forms, and expresses his thought in most sublime poetry, using traditional symbols of his procedures that he otherwise so strongly attacked.
4.1.4: Language of Iqbal’s poems
Iqbal has written poems in Bang-e-Dara in the Urdu language. In this collection, he has written many poems for children, which is very simple and in familiar terminologies. Every single verse of these poems instills the spirit of morality, responsibility, and love for religion, education, and love for country. Iqbal was a
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