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;PoetWhat is the literary term for when a poet anatomises a female, discussing each of her physical attributes?For example, when a poet discusses how beautiful his subjects lips, eyes etc are. Something like what Andrew Marvell does in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ as he praises his mistress’ eyes, forehead and breasts. Poetry Contest – to Bring Out the Poet in you
Poems have always been the passion of man. Poems and of course poets could influence people in a scale not acquired by any other artists. The beauty of poems is loved by people regardless of age, sex or any other classifications. To speak with, love poetry is one such class of poetry that started its success from the eighteenth century. The impact it laid in the minds of common man is not small.
There are several sites that conduct poetry contests in their sites to encourage the love poets. They will be given chance to submit their love poems for the contest. The poet who is chosen as the winner will be rewarded. PoetryCraze.com is a web site conducting poetry contests on a non- profit basis. The winners will be given a sum of $1000 as the reward money.
The web site has another added advantage that the poets who have registered in the web site will get a web site in their name. The web site will be hosted in the name of the registered user and the general format of his web site will be your_name.poetrycraze.com.
Thus you get a web site on your own. Your own web site is obtained absolutely free of cost. The user will not be charged in any way. The only action required from the part of the user is undergoing a registration process.
Your own web site can be obtained through the submission of a filled registration form. The filling is so simple that only minimal fields are to be filled in. The clicking is done for submission and there comes the name of your own web site. You will be given the user name and password for your own web site.
The web site is aimed at giving support in all ways to the subscribers. Your own web site is one of the many offers they are giving for their visitors. The information on love poetry will be placed as links in the web site. All famous poems and the name of the poets will be given in the web site.
Poetry contests are conducted every month to select the best poet. The selection is done on the basis of certain criteria and is performed by experts in the field. Poetry contest winners are given a cash prize of $1000 which is never a small amount. This gives you a better exposure that is difficult to attain in the real world through any other means. Love poems can be submitted on following the basic rules and regulations set in the site. The prime condition that has to obey without any compromise is that the poems have to be unique and written by the said writer himself.
Thus, the web site offers you many things all in one. Your own web site absolutely free of cost is only one benefit. But the importance is never simple as it sounds to be. You are valued through your talent and appreciated for your work. I m a student of English literature. I love poetry. The Pastor As Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life
‘AFZAL SHAUQ’ – THE TRAVELER POET AS I KNOW HIM / Nazish Zafar
It was through Alley Bolingâ??s valued translations, that I could relish an entirely new and very joyous experience of being introduced to Pushto Poet, Afzal Shauqâ??s poetry which to my pleasant surprise, inspite of his being a poet of a regional language, has modern approach and universal appeal, aptly worthy of being translated in an international language, to touch the hearts of millions of people around the globe. Alley Boling in this regard, deserves a great applause for bringing out the true spirit of his otherwise, alien words in the garb of a language understood by the most, including me.  A master story â?? teller, who prefers doing it in verse, Afzal Shauqâ??s poetry has all the effects of a theatrical performance, that can warm the audience up, and that can chill them down. But in his case, there is only rise of the curtain and no fall. He leaves his reader with a lasting image to take home and cherish. He is a master director, with a complete understanding of his characters. Be they that of a lover, a beloved, a soldier, a traveler or a man on street.  A poet â?? traveler in true spirit, he ventures forth to discover the colours of life, not through careless ransacking but by making â??Loveâ?? his guide and mentor. â??Loveâ?? that bubbles forth from within him as ceaseless energy. What he yearns for is a union of his soul with an equal love force that will give completion and perfection to his creation.  He stands baffled, disillusioned and wondering when his love is answered by a materialistic attitude..                I present songs of love               Played on my heartâ??s violin               But they would rather               Dance for money â?¦                                    ( A Complaint â?? But to whom?/Twist of Fates/p-282)  He is an ardent lover of beauty, and in â??Loveâ??, he sees eternal beauty in its perfection. He is ready to cultivate a farm full of roses of beauty on the land of his heart, no matter how much thorns they bring. Even the melodrama of â??Spanish Eyesâ?? canâ??t keep him from hankeringâ?? after beauty images, like Picasso.  Love , for Afzal Shauq, is not only a source of self fulfillment and self completion, but a remedy to all ailments humanity faces today. He expands the experience of love from the personal territory of heart to the universal phenomenon of Man in general. The worse predicaments of modern man, can be resolved only through cultivation of this passion among all.               â?? LOVE â??               ***** Love â?¦.               Deafens               Blinding               Fearless               Love â?¦.               Melts stone               Free souls               Expands               Two hearts               Evolving               Committed               And with love               Culture,               Location,               Beliefs,               All vanish               This I believe  ( Twist of Fates/p- 84)  Combining both beauty and love, his ideal is the â??Eighth Colourâ?? in rainbow and strangely and ironically this eighth colour is reflection of his own untarnished soul, which he desires to see embodied in another face. The pursuit of his ideal far from looking for physical beauty and luscious love, now becomes a highly spiritual and philosophic experience. The face of his ideal, an extension of his own soul, very deeply connected and dear to him, sets him wandering on the strangest of lands. But the ideal prefers ’staying in the dark, always eluding , drawn to darkness, while he stands alone in the light of the day, wishing to disclose.’ The distance and the parting is painful enough o drive him to madness.               Madness possessed â?¦.               Ever onward               This endless search                Traveling day and night               Like a fairy prince               Unseen to the eye               Tracking after you               Who haunts my mind .                                                                         ( Madness/Twist of Fates/p-177)  When his search for the ideal is returned to him unsuccessful, he once again seeks solace in his inner world .               THE MIRROR                *****               Face of my desire               Always eluding me               Haunting my dreams               Appearing in my thoughts               This face similar to mine               I feel so alone â?¦.               Always, so alone â?¦.               So here I stand again               Gazing into the mirror               Seeking some comfort               In the image I can see â?¦.  `                       (Twist of Fates/p- 172 )  Bridging the gulf between the different quarters of the world through his travels and words, Afzal Shauq preaches peace for the sake of prosperity of humanity. To him life lies in peace, and sustenance lies in love. Without peace and love survival of mankind is impossible. He thinks being a poet and puts his words into action being a traveler.               HUMANITARIAN               ***** A true humanitarian…               is not sentimental               proposing love               with useless speeches.               but takes action               clearing paths over grown               blocking the good road               helping his fellow men…..  (Twist of fates/p-270)  Afzal Shauq, while wandering through different lands in his search, also traversed the deeper tresses of human civilization. He has been a keen observer of evolution, human kind has brought upon itself, in ages. To his disappointment, this evolution has lead to gradual destruction as it is a heartless adventure of selfish nature of man. He is pained to see how men have divided themselves into the rich and the poor as the economy advanced, how the blood shed and plunder became the order of the day as men â??culturedâ?? themselves; How men became ever vicious and deadly as they strive hard for survival. He speaks for the poor, the suffering, the deprived with the compassion of being in their shoes himself. But his poems, inspite of all the traces of pain and suffering on earth, nowhere become a lament or a woe, where a weak heart mourns and wails. They are ever filled with a hope , originating from his belief in the power of love. He knows and can convince that some day ..               â??With the rain Once parched lands would become prosperousâ??                                           (Hope for Peace/Twist of Fates/p-316)  With impressive themes, strong imagery, unique style and beautiful diction, poems of Twist of Fates leave me richer at heart and mind. Based upon my experience of perusing this book, I address the poet in these words:               Wither you flee?               The wandering soul !               Captive of the unseen !               You wish to unlock               The heart within you               And those of all you can reach               The cells of scary night               And let all stars fly away               In search of the unknown               Who has trampled               The strangest of lands and seas               Under your feet               Look for your own face               Unable to find               Tear deprived               Shed dreams               In speechless agony  With my best wishes and regards for Afzal Shauq.  NAZISH FAZAR Islamabad / January, 21st 2008 nazishzafar@yahoo.com  copied from the book ” bridging the gaps” What poet should I do my writing paper on?I must write a poem on my favorite poem and I’m not sure who I should write about. Name me a good poet and give me 1 or 2 poems he/she wrote. Pretty please? http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/giovanni_nikki.html Which poet is considered to have the best meter?I’m looking for a good poet to read. Is there one who is considered to have: 1. Well structured meter (flows well) AFZAL SHAUQ, A FIGURATIVE POET / Sunita Devi
AFZAL SHAUQ, A FIGURATIVE POET  â??A poet with creativity, sensitivity, and perfectly a human heart with much peace to offer to humankindâ?â?¦ Sunita Devi  Afzalâ??s poetry is a combination of intelligence and variants of deep feelings ranging from the simple topic referring to ordinary lives to the much debated theme of war, comprising within its vast compass a whole range of human emotions. Not only thought provocative but also his poetry are capable of creating and sustaining interest throughout the length of his lines.  He is a poet with much deep feel and a humane heart. In short a poet with creativity, sensitivity, and perfectly a human heart with much peace to offer to humankind.  â??Blind Worldâ?, A metaphorical poem with the theme of death bringing forward the differences that exist in the world dividing people from people. In the imagery of two loves buried under darkness denying from the sunlight explicitly states the meaning of life’s brevity…Winnie  â??Strange Peaceâ?, A realistic yet engaging way of writing the fact of the various leaders that have came across the face of the world politics leaving behind marks of scars of destruction with development. A piece with thoughts much to ponder onâ?¦ Winnie  â??A Strange Justiceâ?, Beautiful imagery of the will of the justice giving body. In fact, â??justiceâ? is really a questionable issueâ?¦ whatâ??s â?? the criteria of justiceâ? and whatâ??s supposed to be put to â??justiceâ? .. how and who cares? This is a tragic dilemma of the 21st century I thinkâ?¦ Winnie  â??Begging Heartâ?, being poets, our hearts beg for love and remain dry and in thirst without being fulfilled that thirst….is an always moving thirst…..? Maybe answer is big YES. Appreciate your appetite of love which makes you beg from beautiful onesâ?¦. Winnie  â??Afghaniâ??s Sorrowâ?, well high lighted the issue and I feel the way you do . so let me say in simple words the sorrow of Afghans and the arbitrary of the alien forceâ?¦ raising questions. Whatâ??s right whatâ??s wrongâ?¦ nothing clear and appear. Any way, poem is Simply excellent and touchy !..Winnie  â??Ammanian Girlsâ?, Is this every man’s feeling? …quite unstable….beauty canâ??t be measured because it depends on the taste of aesthetic senses. Maybe yes or maybe noâ?¦ Any how, you being a romantic poet has to praise beauty.. what so ever is touching your heartâ?¦ Winnie  â??Confusion of Loveâ?, this definitely is a true and frank lines about the confusion in love. One in love or once in love can truly associated with it… well written and liked the way you added here about the situation you faced in loveâ?¦ Winnie  â??Senseless Wallsâ?, Senseless walls are in a way vile disguise to protect one’s nation and self. May not be the distance between the sky and heart shortens but it will take ages to gap the distance existing between the hearts of men if man donâ??t stop thinking that they live and strife for the same reason ‘Happiness in Life’. This piece is bringing the utter truth of our everyday life! ..Winnie  â??In the Name of Dignityâ?, A wonderful piece with apt imagery and symbolism.  ‘In appearance  The real nature of human beings coming out in the name of various seemingly differences created by man… Winnie  â??Broken Hopesâ?, A new way of putting how one feels when most loving hope happens to break and make us to live with it without our will in it. Beautifully brought out the pain of the heart in the few lines from the depth of a feeling heartâ?¦ Winnie  Dear Afzal, my following new poem is dedicated to you and to your peace dreaming causeâ?¦ with regards.  Let be this Way.  When the light of the Sun,
When everyone fails,
When all of your dreams,
When there is darkness all-around, Sunita devi (Winnie Angel) win_sun2001@yahoo.com   Afzal Shauq, I have only few poems of yours and in those poems maybe or may not be I got everything about your poem writing characteristics.  Hope you like a synopsis of what I felt about your thoughtful poetry. Regards,  Sunita Devi (Winnie Angel) Guwahati / INDIA www.poemhunter.com/winnie-angel afzal shauq is peace wisher Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke
Product Description Sylvia Plath – Poet, Novelist, American Icon
Discussing with my wife the quality education that women get in women’s colleges, Mary Patricia pointed out to Wellesley producing Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Smith College Sylvia Plath. Of Mrs. Clinton we know a lot, but of Sylvia Plath we know less. Sylvia Plath attended Smith from 1950-1955, and graduated summa cum laude, wining a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge. There she met poet Ted Hughes, whom she later married. Not only was she talented poet but also an essayist and a fine novelist. In all genres she displayed a dark streak for brooding, melancholy, and self destruction. Her literary production, much autobiographical, shows the struggles of a tortured soul caged and bound, and that only death could set free. Poems From her poem “Daddy” we can see the confinement and death laden imagery: You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time– Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal In another poem she intimates the almost died from a swimming accident at the age of 10. We also know that she also attempted suicide when she was 20 years of age. Plath was hospitalized for swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills and crawling into a hole in a wall in her cellar, where her mother found her two days later. The Bell Jar The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s most important and moving fictional work. A bell jar -a vacuumed sealed jar used in labs- symbolizes the protagonist’s life: “I would be stirring under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” The cry for freedom and release is obvious. Faced with portraying the death of a beautiful, talented, and successful woman -Esther Greenwood- the author stylizes her prose to create a surreal atmosphere where the boundaries between sanity and inanity are erased. It is this aspect, the play of reason and unreason, which has made this novel a cultic American classic. The death of the author On 11 February 1963 Sylvia Plath sealed the rooms between herself and her children Freda and Nicholas in her apartment in London, left some bread and milk out, and turned on the gas. Her body was discovered the next day by a regular nurse and a construction worker. She died at the age of 30. Conclusion During her short life (born on 27th October, 1932 in Boston), she managed to write daily. She left autobiographical and confessional journals, diaries, letters, and many other documents from which her lifetime can be reconstructed. While writing for many is a form of catharsis, for Sylvia Plath it was a temporary, tenuous lifeline at best. Smith College has much to be proud of in having produced a true literary figure in Sylvia Plath. While many students prefer co-ed colleges, women’s colleges do have an important role to play in educating literary luminaries. . Retired. Former investment banker, Columbia University-educated, Vietnam Vet (67-68). AFZAL SHAUQ , A GOOD NATURED POET / Laura Maguire
AFZAL SHAUQ , A GOOD NATURED POET
I’m thinking about trying to join a poetry or literary group of some kind near where I live to try and become a better/more developed poet. Your encouragement to keep writing, as well as your poetry, is inspiring. I have became very interested in your work and who you are – I love your quote “A Friendly Smile is the best Weapon of the War… Let’s defeat each other with it and Occupy the hearts to control the feelings of favoring our wishes…”; It is a beautiful sentiment and heart felt for me. I’m anti-war and anti-violence.
I’m glad I have the opportunity to read so much your work. It is always amazing to find words that inspire you and that relate to you. I’m trying hard to find a site where I can purchase Twist of Fates, or another one of your translated books. I will keep looking now and again for a copy. I thank you again for your kind words and encouragement; it isn’t everyday that a published poet gives me feedback.
Briefly Afzal, you, as a person, and as a poet, inspire me because you have such deep empathy for all those around you. It is clearly evident in your poetry alone. You long to see the good in the world, and you hope for something better than the societies of the world we have created over time. You in still the belief that there are still good people in the world, people like you who will never give up. People who spread as much joy to the world as they can. I admire you deeply for that. Your poetry, although firstly written in a different language from mine, is exactly what I think poems should be like. They give you goose bumps, make you shiver, make you smile. They make you feel real emotion inside that is different from a movie or a book – it is a sharp feeling that can happen in an instant, in only a few lines. To move people, to make people feel, to open people’s eyes to the world and to share how you feel; you are a true poet.
You have a clearly refined talent for expressing all you see around you, all you have experienced. I am glad I found a poet who writes interesting poems that make you sit back and really think because they have moved you inside the heart.
Hi Afzal. Posted your birthday poem to my list – alas, it’s a day late! I’ve been really busy; which is a shame because I wrote it for you the other day as well, but the date slipped my mind. Anyways, it’s here …
http://www.postpoems.com/cgibin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=716679
or it’s in the Next Chapter folder. It’s not the most amazing poem – I struggled with writing it because even though I am a happy person, I find it hard to express happy feelings through words. But I did my best!
Hope you had a lovely day Afzal. Email me and let me know what you’re up to; I’m pretty busy with university work just now.
Obviously Afzal, I also feel privileged that a talented poet has critiqued my work – and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for encouraging me to keep writing……Take care,
Laura Maguire Scotland.UK http://PostPoems.com/members/strigae Monday, February 23, 2009 7:16 PM Afzal shauq is a peace wisher and dreamer |
