Nets of awareness Urdu poetry and its critics by Frances W. Pritchett

Author:Frances W. Pritchett [Pritchett, Frances W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780520083868
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1994-05-08T18:30:00+00:00

But it is by no means the only effective strategy, for implication (kinayah) is also a basic technique. Hall asserts that "implication is always more eloquent than straightforwardness." 17 Here is a verse in which Mir exploits the possibilities of implication: he says something very simple, and lets its suggestions and ramifications unfold.

yun ga'i qad ke kham* hu'e jaise

'umr ik rahrav-e sar-e pul tha18

It went when the stature became bent, as if

Age were a traveler on the bridge.

Unlike the verse about the singer(s) in the garden, this one is extremely easy to translateand to translate in one straightforward way. The piquant first line withholds meaning; under actual performance conditions, it might be recited several times, with interludes, giving time for curiosity to develop before the second line resolved the mystery. But if the statement itself is simple, its implications are rich and subtle. There is, of course, the physical basis for the metaphor: the bent back of old age resembles the curved shape of a bridge. But that is only the beginning.

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