Ghazal No.

VOCABULARY: Fabric – atmosphere

Grief – deep sadness and sorrow

Toil – hard labor/work during the day and night

Minaret – a tower or mosque where Muslims pray

Streamlet – small stream

TITLE ANALYSIS: Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain with each line
sharing the same meter

DENOTATIVE MEANING: Ghazal maybe understood as a poetic expression of both pain of loss or
separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain

AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND: Sir Muhammad Iqbal, also spelled Muhammad Ikbal, (born Nov. 9 1877)
Sialkot, Punjab, India (now in Pakistan) died April 21, 1938, (Lahore, Punjab) poet and philosopher,
known for his influential efforts to direct his fellows Muslims in British- administered India toward the
establishments of a separate Muslim state an inspiration that was eventually realized in the country of
Pakistan. He was knighted in 1992.

THEME: “Faith”

TYPE: Lyric

TECHNIQUES:

Stanza Form – Couplets

Alliteration – Fabric of Earth and wind and wave

Trouble and toil, that men call life

Assonance – who is the load that Time and Space

FIGURE OF SPEECH:

Metaphor - You are pinch of dust and blind

Oxymoron – Brought into light? Or who the dark

REPORTED BY: Group 1

Members: Eugene Canada

Ma. Czarina Nicole Aquino

Genelyn P. Barde

Honeylou S. Beltrano