Week 9 Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis 

Week 9 

Ghalib "Couplets

This poem by Ghalib is a pleasure of mine to do a literary analysis about because of how great the poem is and how the reach of the poem is endless. The section I want to focus on is on pg. 594 and the poem named "Couplets". The beginning of the poems starts like the author Ghalib is speaking to himself and in the poetry I have ever read the style is always first person but this one started with the author first speaking to himself internally to talking to God. My favorite thing about the beginning is the line where it say's "Ghalib, it's no use forcing your way with love". Reading this made me feel the wisdom implanted in the sentence to wear Ghalib that love is not something you can just control you have go about obtaining it another way. It was like the author was the character in the poem speaking to himself internally then it turned from a talk with self, to a talk with God. "Dear God" is the way the third stanza begins to make the poem even more interesting defining the norm of a poem only being able to interpreted only through deep thought but this poem was straight forward. Although it does have hidden messages in the stanza they still are straight forward enough for anyone to understand them. For example it says "but what can I do if the heart itself proves to be an enemy of freedom?". Clearly the author is trying to express his confusion of love because a heart that is enemy of freedom means it rather be locked down or I'm guessing in a relationship so that would make it not a free heart. To me this gives a transparent understanding that Ghalib was looking for love in the poem and trusted in God to give him the key to his love dilemma so his heart could continue being the enemy of freedom and locked down with another persons heart. This poem does a great job of imagery and introducing readers to a new style of poetry.