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Ghalib “My tongue Begs For the power of speech”

 

The poem “My tongue begs for the power of speech” shows the contemporary style Ghalib uses call “Ghazals” in his poems which rhythm, and at the end of each stanza finish with same expression. In this poem the author reveals how he feelings towards God with relations to all the problems that happen with humanity in India in the nineteen century. Ghalib demonstrated the power to express your ideas to people can change people lives. “My tongue begs for the power of speech that is Your gift to us” (599 Line 1).  This reveals how the author believes most the attributes people had have been a gift from God, this prove that Ghalib believes in religious. However, the author thinks not all we receive from God are virtue when he says “the blood of slaughter’s victims” (599 Line 17). In this part of the poem we can see how the author is concert humanity, and his feeling toward people who died young without living their lives.

According to Ghalib in “Petition: My Salary” where he make the connection between he job and death when he says he has been “a prisoner of life” (600 Line 12) this similarity between death and how he used to work regular hours but just getting paid every six moth is equal to the religion practice Indians had where they remember dead every six month. Also, he categorizes the emperor as his master with shows he felt he was a slavery at his job. Ghalib explains how he uses to work just to paid he debt and how miserable he was at his job which it relates now of how people do jobs they don’t enjoy just to pay debt and survive in this world.

In the text “It was essential” the author uses a similarly styles to other poems where the last sentences of each stanza are the same I believe he uses this to make the poem strongest. Also we can see how the author values times and regret of things he did not did with love one who died. This show people how to pass their times with family and friends before they died. At the same time all the tragedy that had happened in his life now he is wishing to died when he says “[I] continue to wish for death” (598 Line 59). Ghalib uses irony to symbolize that after death people can be together against, and the author express desire to met his family who died.