من، وجود اور خاموشی: شبنم عشائی کی نظموں کی شعریات
عمر فرحت
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23595664
Abstract. This paper examines the poetics of Dr. Shabnam Ashai’s poetry, focusing on Self, Existence, and Silence. It argues that Ashai transforms silence from mere absence into a powerful poetic presence, where themes of self, loneliness, dreams, and dust are symbolically interrelated. Her poems exhibit a closed inner structure and employ devices like ellipsis, semantic recurrence, and non-linear movement to express existential concerns, making silence itself the most eloquent language of being.
Keywords. Shabnam Ashai, Contemporary Urdu Poetry, Feminist Urdu Poetry.
Umar Farhat, born on March 01, 1986 in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, is an Urdu poet, novelist, critic, and editor. He holds an M.A. in Urdu from Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. Since beginning his literary career in 2007, his writings have appeared in reputed literary journals in India and abroad.
In 2012, under the guidance of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, he founded the quarterly literary journal, Tafheem. His books include the novel Nirakar (2011); poetry collections Zameen Zaad (2019), which won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2021, Sir-e-Shaakh-e-Tamanna (2021), and Lafzon ka Chirag; and the edited volume Gopi Chand Narang: Alif Aasaar Fikr Paima Naqqad (2023). His other editorial project, Khalid Jawed: Fiction Ka Naya Istiyara, and poetry collection Wajd Wajood are forthcoming. He is regarded as a significant voice in contemporary Urdu poetry, blending existential concerns with modern poetics.
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