Verse 51816aaniikare
G1
1
with the writing/down of the cheek, love has written to the curls, a vow--
2
entirely/'one-pen' accepted, is whatever disorder/anxiety it might cause
t:t>> : 'A line, a streak, or stripe, a mark; lineament; --writing, character, handwriting, chirography; a letter, epistle; --down on the face, incipient beard, &c.; beard; moustaches'.
'Appearing, showing or presenting itself, happening, befalling, occurring; ... --the side of the face, the cheek'.
'Injunction, charge, mandate; will, testament; --compact, contract, covenant, agreement, engagement, obligation, promise; bond, league, treaty; --a vow, an oath'.
'A reed; reed-pen, pen; a pencil; a painter's brush; --an engraving tool; --a mode of writing, character, hand- writing; ... a section, paragraph (of a chapter in a book); --the upper part of the beard tapering to a point'.
| References | |
|---|---|
| Arshi, Imtiyaz Ali | Ghazal# 156 |
| Raza, Kalidas Gupta | 274-75 |
| Nuskhah-e-Hamidiyah | 229 |
| Asi, Abdul Bari | 234 |
| Gyan Chand | 360-361 |
| Hamid Ali Khan | Open Image |
That is, on his cheeks this is not down [], but rather my love has written a vow to the curl that whatever disorder/anxiety it would have in mind to do toward me, it should do; this is entirely acceptable to me. The author has in the word composed a second wordplay: first, there are the lines of the beard [] on the cheeks; second, they write letters [] too with pens. This verse too [like 192,4 ] is not devoid of unpleasing embellishment []. (216)
== Nazm page 216
He says, 'The down that appears on his cheeks is not really down, but rather my love has written a vow to his curls, that whatever disorder/anxiety it would have in mind to do with regard to me, it should do; it is completely [] acceptable to me'. (276)
The word is extremely suitable because the curls are near the down/pen [] and the letter/down [] too is written with a pen.
[Disagreeing with Nazm:] God knows what embellishment [] means! If ' theme-creation ' and 'embellishment' are the same thing, then it's not necessary to say anything; otherwise, poetry considers it a theme. (380)
This is one of the small group of verses in the divan in which the beloved is clearly marked as an adolescent boy; for the full set, see 9,2 .
On the Persianized construction to express intensity and sweep, see 11,1 .
This verse, like the previous one 192,4 , is overgrown with tangled vines of wordplay; but perhaps because it's simpler and more concrete, it's less aggravating. (At least, Nazm seems to find it so, since his denunciation is less vehement, and I feel the same way.)
as a line of writing
, to write
as a written document
as a pen
as down on the cheek
as the cheek
as a part of the beard
as a curl of hair
as disorder, tangledness
We really have to salute, and savor, the density of these word-thickets! There's nothing much more to the verse-- but then, does there have to be? Within two short lines of poetry, such a network is, if nothing else, a tour de force of technique.
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