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Criticle Study of Tilok Chand’s Poems

Abstract

"In the last quarter of the 19th century, urdu poetry adopted western patteren from anjuman punjab’s platform. Muhammad Hussain Azad and Khawaja Altaf Hussain Hali urged the urdu poets to use their expertise in natural poetry. Both the artists set the examples in their very first poems, titled as "Abr-e-Karam" and "Barkha Rut" respectively. Soon after, Ismail Meeritee, Shouq Qidwai etc produced beautiful poems in this regard. 20th century, indeed, is an era of modern poetry where Allama Iqbal put placed it on the high pedestal. Tilok Chand was far from literary centres but his artistic avenue and commitment made him an important poet of modern Nazam. His art potray the common man’s feelings and collective issues of that time. He as poet, showed concern and resistance on various political affairs of British rule. He also focused on children’s literature and produced valuable work. His art has the reflection of his society. The art that contains some objectives. Though the progressive movement started in mid thirtees but Tilok Chand’s poetry highlighted the suffering of humanity even at the start of his professional career. It is very difficult for an artist to represent the contemporary issues in his art beside maintaining the true spirit of creativity but Mehroom did this successfully. In this article efforts have been made to explore Tilok’s poetic Place, with regard to his poems."