Posted by: shirish January 17, 2005
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Dadagiri, I did a search on google why ghazal's dont need title. So if a poem has a title, it rather becomes a Nazm (song) than a Ghazal. So in ghazal there is no binding of the individual shers (each sher is indipendent) hence the central theme of title becomes obsolete. so bro, a kavita is a kavita and chanda ma lekheko kavita is chandama kekheko kavita...there is a difference. tasai risayera dadagiri chalaune! Hope this is clear. Hey thanks for asking that question that led me to know the difference between nazm and ghazal. " The ghazal prides itself, among other things, on the detachability and completeness of its individual verses, which retain their sense and effectiveness even when divorced from their context in the poem. The verses are not bound by the law of unity and consistency. The poet of the ghazal is at liberty to talk about love in the first verse, death in the second, envy in the third, mysticism in the fourth, and so on. Such is not the case with the nazm which owes its strength and identity to the logical evolution of thought and theme. A nazm must have a controlling thought or idea, discussed, developed and concluded, with due regard to the laws of poetic composition. That's why a nazm, as against the ghazal, always carries a title summing up its central theme. The various units of the nazm, besides subserving the need of the central thought, must be mutually interlinked, so as to contribute to the forward movement of narration which should culminate in an aesthetically satisfying close. And this reminds us of the etymological meaning of nazm, an Arabic term implying a stringing together of pearls, or an artistic ordering of words and lines. http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ramamurt/nazm.html
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