However, the generalization about his poetry being simple and unfailingly transparent does not go down well with eminent scholar and literary theorist Gopi Chand Narang. Mir is largely perceived as the poet of unrequited love and his poetry depicts the trials of a life of desire in an idiom that is easy to understand. More than 300 years after his death, the poet continues to engage scholars, critics and literary historians celebrated writers like Khushwant Singh have made him the subject of fiction. This is vividly manifested in the evocative poetry of Mir Taqi Mir (1723- 1810), himself described in Urdu as Khudae Sukhan or the “God of poetry”. The pre-colonial cultural synthesis, literary and lexical confluence, and religious symbiosis produced several gifted poets whose outpourings, seemingly wrapped in plain words, explored the human predicament in intriguing ways.
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