احمد ندیم قاسمی کی نظموں میں شعری تخیّل Poetic Imagery in Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi’s Poems Section Urdu Literature

Abstract

Imagery, in literary or poetic sense, is the author's use of description and vivid language, deepening the reader's understanding of the work, by appealing to the senses. It is an important poetic element. Through the poetic imagery , a poet tries to create a picture in the mind of reader or a mental image through the figural language. There are main five types of imagery, relate to the five senses. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, a well-known Urdu Poet and short story writer, used poetic imagery in his poems very nicely. He wrote Ghazals too. His poetic books including “Jalal o Jamal, Rim jhim, Dasht-e-Wafa, Dharkanen, Gardaab, Muheet” are very famous due to his rhythmic poetry. Qasmi was impressed by Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. Like Iqbal, He used metaphor based on sun, moon, stars and space & time. His language and style is compatible with modern thoughts. His poetry has sensory expressions. There are many poems of Ahamd Nadeem qasmi, which have beautiful imagery like “Sham Kab Aa Gayi, Jadeed Insan, Neya Saal” etc but here are specially his two poems has been mentioned for poetic imagery analyses. These are “ Pas-e-Parda”  and “ Tahreer”.