TRADITION OF REVOLUTIONARY POETRY IN URDU

Abstract

For a long time since the beginning of the history of Urdu literature, Urdu poetry has been the centre of love, migration and death. Poetry was written for personal satisfaction without being cut off from society and without stating social realities.  Nowhere in the first three hundred years of Urdu poetry did any social subject appear to be a regular part of Urdu poetry among the poets (except for NazeerAkbarabadi).  For the first time in the life of Nasir Akbar Abdi, we find poetry isolated from the mood of Urdu poetry.  For the first time, he made social subjects part of his poetry.  Due to which the traditional poets refused to accept him as a poet.  For a long time after Nasir Akbar Abdi, we did not find this level of social consciousness in any other poet. In Ghalib's poetry after Nasir, we see universal subjects deviating from tradition.  Ghalib dealt with the day-to-day affairs of human life in poetry and introduced realism in poetry.  We find similar natural subjects and natural poetry in the present.  Maulana Muhammad Hussain Azad also holds a unique position in the field of natural subjects.  Hali and Azad nurtured natural poetry in the poetry of Anjuman Punjab.  Iqbal also struck the consciences of the sleeping nation with the blade of his poetry and aroused the faith of the Muslims.  We see traces of revolutionary poetry in Iqbal.  Abu Al-IjazHafeez Siddiqui quotes Al-Ahmad Sarwar regarding the beginning of revolutionary poetry, according to which: