Use Of Radeef In Ghazaliat Of Ahmad Fraz

Abstract

This article elaborates the Use of Radeef in Ghazaliat of Ahmad Fraz. Ahmad Fraz is considered as an eminent representative of the modern Urdu poetry. He added many colour to Urdu language with his poetry. Not only he drew upon traditional subjects of romance and love, he also wrote his despair and disappointments and produced some of the finest specimens of resistance poetry. His radeefs contain all the asthetic, artistic and dianoetic aspects of Urdu poetry. He used exclamatory, singular, narrative, interrogative, imperative, temporal, optative and multiple and varied meanings words as radeef.

References:

1. Farooqi, Abdul Qadir Ghias ul din, Ahmad Fraz: Shakhsiat aor Shairi, Baija pur,Blue star printers, 2015, p. 72
2. Ahmad Fraz, Kuliat e Ahmad Fraz, Lahore, Mavra Publishers, 1989, p.19
3. Ibid,p.20
4. Ibid, p.25
5. Ibid, p.42
6. Ibid, p.52
7. Ibid, p.54
8. Ibid, p.80
9. Ibid, p.81
10. Ibid, p.149
11. Ahmad Fraz, Dard Ashob, Mavra Publishers, 1966, p.12
12. Ibid, p.19
13. Ibid, p.30
14. Ibid, p.39
15. Ibid, p.108
16. Sahil Ahmad, Monograph, Illah Abad, Urdu Writers Gild, 1997, P.9