اردو نظم میں تصویرکاری اور محاکات نگاری کی روایت

(ابتدا سے رومانی تحریک تک)

Abstract

As regard to elegy, encomium and Masnavi of Urdu literature; the scenography, naturalism and reflection of society found in these genres, present strong tendency of making pictures and picturesque imagery. Pictorial imagery in Nazir Akber Abadi and a blend of picturesque imagery and imagism in Allama Iqbal's poetry are exemplary. Anjuman Punjab and Romanticism gave rise to the picturesque poetry of natural phenomena. In this article, the author analysis different changes that took place in the style and topics of the picturesque images coined and adopted by the Urdu poets since the beginning of Urdu poetry up to Romantic Movement.