World Literature

When I first started reading the ghazal packets, I had some difficulty in navigating my way through understanding the autonomous couplets...

What I found most captivating about the ghazals was the accessibility of the concepts. As Professor Dasgupta stated in her comment on one of...

I thoroughly enjoy reading and writing poetry, but, prior to reading and learning about the ghazal, I had essentially no experience with fo...

The poem from the Adrienne Rich packet on page 71 was one of my favorites.  The final couplet:  "All those joinings! and yet we foug...

From the start, it seemed obvious that reading the ghazals would be a uniquely challenging endeavor.  In order to truly understand the inte...

Well I feel like I will be echoing some other people I have already read on this blog by saying I still have trouble connecting to the Gha...

I love poetry. I grew up with an angsty devotion to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and I've traveled to poetry festivals, sitting in ch...

When I first was given the ghazals to read, I knew from the beginning it was going to be a challenge, and challenged I was.  Reading the ...

I still feel disconnected from most of the Ghalib, Mir, and Faiz ghazals, but I really like some of Adrienne Rich's works. I've fou...

The packet "Ghazals of Ghalib" breaks down the process of interpretation and understanding in to its most basic steps. Beginning ...

I found myself feeling frustrated as I was reading the Ghazals. The elements that characterize them were completely lost in translation. Th...

My reading of the Ghazals has given me an emotional connection with writers who have lived hundreds of years before me.  For this to occur ...

The Ghazals are interesting because even though they seem to have a set form, even as far as subject matter goes, those of Ghalib a...

The Ghazal is a verse form that I have not read or analyzed before--in fact, I had never even heard of it until this past week. This surpri...

Here is another video from the television series on Mirza Ghalib (that you have seen other clips from in class). I couldn't find one wi...

Reading Ghazals is more difficult than I imagined, as the form is so different than what I am used to when reading poetry.  Even though I...

To me, the ghazals are both an enjoyable experience and a form of literature that intrigues me with its contradictions. I tend to gravitate...

“How favored is man at whose behest, / The sky is made to measure the earth”; so begins the matla of one of Mir’s ghazals .*  The next...