Shakespeare and Ghālib: Beauty, Desires and Love
Shakespeare and Ghālib: Beauty, Desires and Love Shakespeare aur Ghālib: Husn, Khvāhisheñ aur Ishq Shakespeare’s deals various angles, aspects and situations of love, like tenderness and yearning in his plays but it comes out more beautifully in his sonnets. Poets before him articulated the lover’s sincerity and depth almost as if in supplication, or worship, building up their case based on the core emotion and ardour of true love. Shakespeare broke free from this mould and his expression and delivery were not merely persuasive but also argumentative, often a proposition which overcomes all objections. Given a situation, a colourful argument is also presented to reverse the proposition, highlighting the contrast, even as doubts and questions about the lover’s own disposition also abound, building a truly enjoyable synthesis. The word “love” appears thousands of times in his collected works, besides hundreds of “loves”, “loved” “lov ing ” and “ be loved” which makes for a lot