Meer (Hindi Edition)

Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest Urdu poets of all time, was renowned as the god of Urdu poetry. Rekhta means early Urdu. It was Mirs Urdu that compelled Ghalib to abandon Persian and write in this language. While other famous poets of that era, such as Sauda, Mazhar, Nazir Akbarabadi, and Dard, began writing in Urdu, Mirs influence was the greatest. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brought Urdu. Urdu was known as the language of the camp. This is because Urdu was born out of the linguistic interaction that took place in the gatherings of soldiers from different regions. Mirs writing and Urdus rise to prominence occurred almost simultaneously. Urdu, holding Mirs hand, slowly made its journey, maturing under his watchful eye. Mirs poetry is not limited to ghazals alone. He also wrote dozens of masnavis and marsiyas. His ghazals have been collected in six diwans, numbering over two thousand. In addition, he has composed approximately fifteen thousand couplets. While Mirs poetry is simple, it also sometimes displays a bitterness. While Mirs poetry reflects his romantic temperament, he also wrote much more, making categorizing not only extremely difficult but impossible. Mirs name is still revered today, and in the future, this poet of medium stature, frail build, and wheatish complexion will continue to be remembered with equal respect as a shining tower of Urdu literature.