ghazal
Definitions
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- noun A poetic form mostly used for love poetry in Turkish, Urdu, Arabic, and Persian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.
Examples
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They are, of course, about both, but the nature of the ghazal is to be about several things at once: the beloved and the state and god; the seasons, age, death and eternity, intoxication and meditation, and, of course, language.
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In fact, in India and Pakistan, ghazal is also a separate, distinct musical genre in which many of the same songs are performed in a different musical style, and in a secular context.
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A ghazal is traditionally a love poem, but modern writers use the form and not the theme - the form being that it consists of several two-line stanzas, and certain words are repeated at the end of every stanza.
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Perhaps the most popular form of poetry in Pakistan is the ghazal, which is made up of five or more units of two lines each and often sung.
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By definition, a ghazal is a collection of two-line couplets that may or may not have a thematic link but are each complete thoughts by themselves.
Note
The word 'ghazal' comes from Arabic.
