Jaun Eliya Poetry and Urdu Language

Jaun Eliya is one of the most remarkable modern Pakistani poets, popular for his unconventional way of writing. His poetry completely depends upon a reader’s perception and his approach towards it. Reading Jaun Eliya’s work leaves a reader possibly in two states either one will love him or discard him fully.  Jaun Eliya does not effort to take a reader with him but the reader will have to keep stride with him.His poetry expresses unfulfilled love, melancholy, loneliness, hopelessness and frustrating state of human mind while using simple form and language. Poet Pirzada Qasim said: “Jaun was very particular about language. While his diction is rooted in the classical tradition, he touches on new subjects. He remained in quest of an ideal all his life. Unable to find the ideal eventually, he became angry and frustrated. He felt, perhaps with reason, that he had misused his talent”. He was fluent in Urdu, Arabic, English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew. Despite his peculiar style of expression he earned immense fame in Urdu poetry. He used Nazm and Ghazal as a form of poetry to express his frenzy feelings. Ya'ani (2003), Gumaan (2004), Lekin (2006) Gooya (2008) are some of his renowned poetic works which made him a popular poet of Pakistan.

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