The Love Poetry of Baldev Mirza: An Assessment
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https://doi.org/10.56062/Keywords:
Mirza, meditation, loneliness, Indo-English poetry, humanAbstract
Mirza is a poet of red rose and its fragrance. His poetry is largely a conversation among the lovers in which the poet sometimes longs, sometimes aches, sometimes pines, sometimes pains and sometimes converses with his lover in his dream world. The poetry of Baldev Mirza abounds in the incidents of worldly lovers who sometimes shiver, sometimes weep, sometimes meditate and sometimes see the image of their loving one in their dream. Mirza can speak to the readers without assuming a pose and his insistence on the efficacy of love and longing breath a different kind of stuffy atmosphere to the India English poetry. His poem which are written in anguish of unfulfilled desire and some on anticipation of the benediction of the benediction of a promised communion, provide a simple and unaffected impression readers mind as well as leaves an optimistic and sensitive note to the good things of life which makes life more human and humane.
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