Anatomization of Nassir’s Simulacrum

Abstract

This article throws light on how the renowned Urdu poet, Nasir Kazmi, crafts his poetics by the use of his powerful imagery. His depth of perception, acute observation, sharp senses and fluent stylistics enable him to portray whatever he sees, imagines, and perceives. It is the charisma of his craftsmanship that his poetic pictures, his personified fancies and painted realities make his collection of poetry an album of multicolour paintings or a splendid example of graphic art. Nasir observes his surroundings like a photographer or a painter and then uses his pen like the brush of a creative artist, to draw the sad pictures of deprived segments of society, declining values, gone by time, mysteries of the night, deserted mornings, pale afternoons, lamenting evenings and thus completing an environment full of sense of loss in which the past is a fascinating dream and the present is an undesired reality.