Parveen Shakir Poetry Books

Parveen Shakir Poetess

Parveen Shakir, the famous poetess, was born on 24 November 1952 in Karachi, Pakistan. Her (Takalush) pen inscription is Shakir. She was a popular Urdu poet, instructor, and civil servant of the Government of Pakistan as well.  Arguably, Shakir can be termed the first woman poet to use the phrase larki (girl) in her works. The male-dominated Urdu poetry scene seldom manipulates that word and makes use of masculine syntax when speaking about the ‘lover’. Similarly, she regularly made use of the Urdu first-person, female pronoun in her verses which, though extremely frequent in prose, used to be hardly ever used in poetry, even by female poets, earlier than her.

Educational and Personal Life of Parveen Shakir

Parveen Shakir Poetry Books was extraordinarily educated. She obtained two undergraduate degrees, one in English literature and the second one in linguistics, and bought MA degrees in identical subjects from the University of Karachi. She also held a Ph.D. and some other MA diplomas in Bank Administration. In 1982, Shakir certified for the Central Superior Services Examination. In 1991, she got an MA degree in Public Administration from Harvard University America. Later, Shakir married a Pakistani doctor named Syed Naseer Ali, with whom she had a son, Syed Murad Ali butt the marriage did not last long and ended in a divorce.

Death Incident 

On 26 December 1994, unfortunately, Shakir’s car collided with a bus while she was going on her way to work in Islamabad. The accident resulted in her death, a tragic loss to the Urdu poetry world. The ultimate road on which the accident took place is named after her today.

Parveen Shakir Career 

Parveen began writing at an early age and published her initial volume of poetry, Khushbu, in 1976. Then, she consequently published other volumes of Parveen Shakir Poetry; all well-received. Some of the famous poetries included Sad-bargain 1980, Khud Kalami, and Inkaar. The most distinguished subjects in Shakir’s poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas. Shakir’s first book, Khushboo, was successfully awarded the Adamjee Award in 1976. Later, she was awarded the Pride of Performance which is one of Pakistan’s absolute best honors in 1976. In 2013, Pakistan Post Office issued a memorial postage stamp of Rupees 10 denomination on Parveen Shakir’s death anniversary.

Unique Poetry Style of Parveen Shakir

Shakir employed normally two types of poetry in her work, one being the usual Ghazal, and the other being free verse. The most distinguished topics in Parveen Shakir Poetry books are love, feminism, and social stigmas, even though she seldom wrote on other matters as well. Her work was regularly based totally on romanticism, exploring the ideas of love, beauty, and their contradictions, and closely integrated the use of metaphors, similes, and personifications.

Parveen defied lifestyle by her style of poetry which focused on feminism, love, the plight of a female, and social stigmas. She used ghazal and free verse as the two essential patterns of poetry and heavy use of similes, personifications, and metaphors can be considered in all of Parveen Shakir Poetry Books. Her poetry showcases sensible thematic scenes and provides a lady’s take on sentiment, affection, attractiveness, love, closeness, sorrow, parting, doubts, betrayal, and unfaithfulness. The quality point about her poetry is the way Parveen Shakir tells the world how a girl loves a man with all her entire heart and soul. Shakir conveys all that in a sophisticated and modest manner, by no means crossing from love to lust melts the hearts of the readers.

List of Parveen Shakir Poetry Books

1. Khushbu (Fragrance) – 1976

2. Sad-barg (Marsh Marigold) – 1980

3. Khud-Kalami (Talking to oneself) – 1990

4. Inkaar (Refusal) – 1990

5. Mah-e-Tamaam (Full Moon) – 1994

6. Kaf-e-Aa’ina (The Edge of the Mirror)

Awards and Accolades of Parveen Shakir

The poetess obtained the most eminent award by the Pakistani government, the Pride of Performance award for her first book, ‘Khushboo’. Additionally, it also won the Adamjee Literary Award.

Top 5 Most Famous Verses by Parveen Shakir

1. Chalne ka hausla nahin rukna muhaal kar diya

Ishq ke is safar ne to mujh ko nidhal kar diya

2. Kaise kah duun ke mujhe chhor diya hai us ne

Baat to sach hai magar baat hai rusvayi ki

3. Paas jab tak vo rahe dard thamā rahtā hai

Phailta jaata hai phir aankh ke kajal ki tarah

4. Kū-ba-kū phail ga.ī baat shanāsā.ī kī

Us ne khushbu ki tarah meri pazirayi ki

5. Tu badalta hai to be-sakhta meri aankhen

Apne hathon ki lakiron se ulajh jaati hain

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