Not Everyone Who Rhymes Is a Poet | 4 Signs of Bad Poetry | Salman Akhtar & Pervaiz Alam Live
In this session from Jashn-e-Rekhta, renowned psychoanalyst and poet Dr. Salman Akhtar joins Pervaiz Alam, academic, writer and grandson of Premchand, to dissect the anatomy of bad poetry.
With his trademark humour, Dr. Akhtar breaks bad shayari into four categories. Satahi, the superficial, verses with no meaning beyond the literal words, like a couplet that simply announces the poet can't sleep. Be-maane, the meaningless, lines that sound profound and are delivered with total confidence but carry zero meaning, like the one who has seen everything, has seen everything. Bad-zaban, the ill-mannered, poetry that uses words which don't fit the mizaj of a ghazal. And Rakeeq, the vulgar, verses that aren't quite filthy but create unease instead of aesthetic pleasure, not for a gathering of decent people, as he puts it.
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Pervaiz Alam's reactions and additions give the conversation real intellectual depth, while Dr. Akhtar's examples keep the room laughing throughout.
With his trademark humour, Dr. Akhtar breaks bad shayari into four categories. Satahi, the superficial, verses with no meaning beyond the literal words, like a couplet that simply announces the poet can't sleep. Be-maane, the meaningless, lines that sound profound and are delivered with total confidence but carry zero meaning, like the one who has seen everything, has seen everything. Bad-zaban, the ill-mannered, poetry that uses words which don't fit the mizaj of a ghazal. And Rakeeq, the vulgar, verses that aren't quite filthy but create unease instead of aesthetic pleasure, not for a gathering of decent people, as he puts it.
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Pervaiz Alam's reactions and additions give the conversation real intellectual depth, while Dr. Akhtar's examples keep the room laughing throughout.
