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gipsyavnger · 1 year

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Call of Duty OC: Isobel “Medusa” Williams

When she enlisted in the United States Army at eighteen, the Combat Exclusion Policy had yet to be lifted, so she could not follow in her father’s footsteps. Instead, Isobel followed in her grandfather’s footsteps and became one of the best attack helicopter pilots the Army produced. She was recruited to Task Force 141 by Captain John Price at the request of Kate Laswell.

GENERAL

Name: Isobel Guinevere Williams Call Signs: Medusa; Echo 0-1 Rank: Lieutenant (British Army); Warrant Officer 4 (US Army, former) Gender: Female Birthday: March 25th, 1991 Nationality: American Place of Birth: Fort Benning, Georgia Home: [Redacted], Herefordshire, England Spoken Languages: English (native), Italian (native), Spanish (fluent), Pashto (fluent), Arabic (fluent), and Russian (conversational) Sexuality: Heterosexual Occupation: British SAS operator for Task Force 141; AH-64D/E Pilot (Formerly; separated from the US Army)

AFFILIATIONS/RELATIONSHIPS

Family

Father: First Sergeant Colin Michael Williams AKA Coyote, US Army Ranger (retired) Mother: Maria Gulianna Williams née Giordano, US Army nurse (retired) Siblings: Sergeant Aoife Elisabeth Williams, US Army medic. Relationship with parents: Isobel adores her father. He’s her hero. She wanted to grow up and be tough and fierce just like him when she was a kid. Her relationship with her mother is a little strained at times. She loves her mom very much, but being raised by the hot-headed Italian made things a little interesting, especially when Isobel was trying to prove her independence while Aoife was running around being a little shit. Relationship with sibling: Isobel and Aoife fought like cats and dogs when they were younger. They were three years apart but so close in personality. Poor Colin had to deal with three Italian-tempered women running around his house, causing chaos. Isobel loves Aoife with all her heart, but they still have the typical sister relationship. They get on each other’s nerves but would kill to protect each other.

Extended Family These people are not related to her, but she grew up with them and views them as family:

“Uncle” Robert “Badger” Tully, US Army Ranger (retired)

“Uncle” Jack “Omaha” Wagner, US Army Ranger (retired)

“Uncle” Greg “Elvis” Sumner, US Army Ranger (retired)

Pets: None. She loves all animals. Except small yippy dogs. She especially hates Pomeranians and Chihuahuas. It stems from when she was six and was attacked by a small dog.

Task Force 141

Kate Laswell

Captain John Price (Bravo-6)

Sergeant John “Soap” MacTavish

Sergeant Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

Lieutenant Simon “Ghost” Riley

Los Vaqueros

Colonel Alejandro Vargas

Sergeant Major Rodolfo “Rudy” Parra

APPEARANCE

Eye color: Dark brown, in the right light they look black Hair color: Dark brown; if she spends enough time in the sun it lightens to a soft brown Height: 5’4” / 164cm Build: Lean, muscular, and athletic Blood Type: AB+ Scars: Many; one over her right eyebrow, scars littered across her stomach, a long scar down her left shoulder, one down her right thigh (all from her first helicopter crash), and a bullet wound on the right side of her stomach (from the Alone mission) Face Claim: Lyndsy Fonseca

FAVORITES

Color: Black and red Food: Pistachio pesto over homemade tagliatelle pasta Drink: Coffee and/or an energy drink Alcohol: Bourbon Song: If I’m There – Bad Omens Album: Finding God Before God Finds Me – Bad Omens Flowers: Sunflowers and Lilacs Hairstyle: A loose messy bun, loose ponytail, or half up in a bun/half down (Normal/relaxed days); tight French braid or military standard bun (For missions)

PERSONALITY

Myers’s-Briggs Type: ISTJ-T (Turbulent Logictican)

Strong-willed and dutiful - Isobel’s integrity is everything to her, portraying it in her words and actions. She works hard and stays focused with patience and determination, which others admire.

Responsible - Her word is her promise, and promises mean everything to Isobel. She is loyal to a fault.

Jack-of-all-trades - Isobel is a repository for a vast wealth of knowledge. She learns quickly and can utilize what she’s learned at the drop of a hat.

Compassionate - She’s a bleeding heart for those in need, willing to throw herself into the line of fire to protect an innocent person without a second thought.

Intelligent - Isobel is an avid reader, consuming whatever she can get her hands on. Had she pursued college, she would have more than likely gone on to receive a Ph.D. in whatever subject she’d chosen to study. Safe to say, the woman is borderline genius.

When someone first meets her, Isobel can come across as stoic and withdrawn. It takes some prying, but eventually, she will open up to those willing to try to be her friend.

She goes into a certain mindset when in the heat of battle. She looks like she could kill you and probably will kill you.

Permanent case of resting bitch face

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Fighting style: Sambo, Krav Maga, Judo with a mix of Kali

Weapon(s):

Sniper Rifle: Barrett MRAD .308

Semi-Automatic Rifle: M4A1

Pistol: Sig Sauer M17

Knives: 5–10 thin, easily concealable blades hidden/tucked into her tactical vest; great for throwing or stabbing. Not meant for slashing.

Distinct Weapon: Her concealed knives for close combat

Special Skills: An expert in tracking, survival, and hunting.

TRIVIA

Is obsessed with Star Wars and Lord of the Rings.

She has a ridiculous amount of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings lore memorized and can recall it anytime.

She has a replica of Darth Vader’s lightsaber, Aragorn’s sword Andúril, Legolas’s dual blades, and Arwen’s blade Hadhafang in storage at her parents’ place

Loves to read; her book collection is ridiculous. Isobel isn’t picky about what genre she reads, either.

She was caught reading a few times when she flew helicopters and was stuck on standby.

One of her favorite things to do in her downtime is go to used and new bookstores and browse for hours.

In her senior year of high school, she applied to Yale, Brown, and Columbia to keep her parents happy. She was accepted into all three but declined and enlisted in the military instead.

She married Lucas Greer (US Army Paratrooper, deceased) when she was nineteen. Their marriage was rough, and they legally separated when she was 27. The divorce was finalized in 2019 when she was 28.

She stays in touch with Lucas’s parents every once in a while.

The end of the marriage to their son was rough, but despite that, Isobel loved her in-laws. They were nothing but kind to her through everything that happened.

Covers her prominent scars with tattoos, but she’s also obsessed with tattoos. She currently has five, the biggest of which is her partial back piece.

Has a lovely singing voice, but her party trick is her ability to scream like Courtney LaPlante.

BACKGROUND

Born to a mother who served in the US Army as a nurse and a father who held the record for the most kills under any Army Ranger’s belt until he retired, Isobel grew up in a military household. When she was younger, she wanted to rebel against her parents and become a lawyer, but she always idolized her parents and eventually grew out of her lawyer phase.

Growing up, Isobel spent every second she could with her father when he was home. Colin deployed a lot, so the man treasured each moment he could be with his family. He took Isobel (and her younger sister once she was old enough) on every hunting trip, using the time to teach her how to shoot. He also taught her the Ranger Way. By the time Isobel was in high school, she was an expert in tracking, survival, and evasion. If needed, she could survive off the land for an indefinite amount of time, given the right tools.

Isobel had a somewhat normal high school experience. Her senior year, she was the Track & Field team's captain, bringing her team the gold for the 200 and 400-meter sprint at the State Championship and anchoring the relay team to take home first place. Besides participating in sports, Isobel was the captain of the debate team and a member of the National Honor Society.

Thanks partly to her well-rounded high school career, Isobel had her pick of colleges to choose from…but that was the opposite of what she wanted. On the day of her eighteenth birthday, she marched down to the nearest Army recruiter and enlisted.

She made it through Basic Training with flying colors, earning herself an Expert Marksmanship badge. Sadly, she couldn’t pursue her dream of becoming an Army Ranger like her father, so she became an attack helicopter pilot instead.

Upon graduating from Warrant Officer Candidate School and Warrant Officer Pilot School and flight training, Isobel found herself a fully-fledged AH-64D/E (Apache Longbow/Guardian) pilot with the callsign “Medusa.” Around this time, she also met her future husband Lucas Greer. He was a dashing paratrooper, and their romance was a whirlwind. Within three months, they were married. Things were blissful before the deployments started, but during their second deployment, Lucas began getting abusive.

The marriage continued to grow more and more toxic, and eventually, friends and family began to take notice. One in particular was Hannah “Sparrow” Clayton, Isobel’s best friend. During this time, Sparrow had an accident climbing K2 in Asia. The night Isobel got the call saying Sparrow had disappeared was the straw that broke the camel’s back, immediately filling for legal separation when Sparrow woke up from her coma.

By 2019, twenty-eight-year-old Isobel was legally divorced and happier than she had felt in years. She completed another two tours before being shot down by an enemy RPG after she and her gunner were scrambled to deal with the aftermath of the 2021 Hamid Karzai International Airport bombing, which landed her at Walter Reed Medical Center.

Isobel had served her country for twelve years, facing the prospect of being medically separated from the US Army or stuck behind a desk for the rest of her career. That’s when Laswell sent the uncut footage of the helicopter crash to Captain John Price, informing him that she was recruiting Isobel to Task Force 141.

Price arrived at the hospital and officially recruited Isobel on Laswell’s behalf. Isobel spent six months with TF141 before the Los Almas and Chicago events transpired. After proving her mettle, Price pulled some strings and pushed some paper to have Isobel officially become a member of the British Armed Forces to go through the SAS selection process.

After passing the grueling training, she came out the other side a member of the British SAS and a full-time member of Task Force 141.

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browngirlmiscellaneous · 2 years

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this is your friendly reminder that “desi music” goes beyond urdu/hindi/punjabi music. there are dozens of other languages that inhabit south asia including pashto, tamil, sindhi, bengali, nepali, balochi, etc. just because a song isn’t in a language you speak, doesn't mean it’s not “desi”

#south asia #south asian music #the same goes for other forms of media and art #south asian languages

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pashtunology · 1 year

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Women constitute the backbone of Pashtun society and social organisation. Their role is not only limited to home management, they have played a significant role in all fields throughout history. They have stood in the battlefield with men to defend the motherland and if we look into Pashto literature we find a significant contribution of women and their role in society.

Landey, Tapey and Naarey are three forms of unwritten Pashto folk literature, more than half of this fine and heart-rendering poetry is the work of women.

Landay is a traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet. The most enchanting landey have been sung by Pashtun women in battlefields and during episodes of love, such as:

پاس په کمر ولاړه ګله!

نصیب د چا يې؟ اوبه زه در خېژومه

Oh flower on the mountain peak,

It is I who water you, God knows who would own you.

Pashtun women also used landey in the battlefield. We come across events in our national history where the singing of a single landey by a woman has proven to be more effective than weapons.

In the battle of Maiwand, when Pashtuns prepared to fight for their country, a Pashtun maiden proudly sent off her lover to the battlefield and dispatched this message to the commander of this patriotic war:

پر ایوب خان مې سلام وایه!

دا دئ جانان مې کومکي در ولېږنه

Convey my greetings to Ayub Khan,

I have sent off my lover to lend a hand.

When the young Pashtun returns triumphant from war, his lover greets him as such:

د خېره راغلې! په خېر راشې!

چې د دښمن په مخ کې خړ نه شوې مئينه

Welcome! Welcome home, thank God,

You were not humbled before the enemy.

[See photos for more landeys]

Other parts of folk literature are Naara in stories and Gharra in the national dance called Attan and Sundarey (songs) recited in weddings. Most of the Naaras and wedding songs have been authored by women. We’ll look into those in future posts. Stay tuned!

Artwork by minnamamik

Source: Prof Habibi articles

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#afghanistan #pashto #pashtun #afghan #art #khyber pakhtunkhwa #pashto poetry #kabul #pashtunology #pashtun history #poetry #پښتو #افغانستان #central asia #culture #pakhtun

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mywifeleftme · 3 months

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294: Nashenas // Life is a Heavy Burden

Life is a Heavy Burden Nashenas 2022, Strut (Bandcamp)

Nashenas is one of Afghanistan’s most beloved twentieth century singers. Born in Kandahar in 1935, he was raised in Karachi, British India (now Pakistan) before his family returned to Afghanistan during his adolescence. By his early 20s he had become a popular vocalist, with a weekly national radio slot singing traditional poetry, adaptations of popular Bollywood songs, and (with increasing frequency) his own compositions in Dari and Pashto.

Most of his work is in the ghazal tradition, a form of Arabo-Persian poetic ode (classically a simultaneous address to an absent lover and to God) that has remained popular in the East for nearly 1,500 years. The songs have a meditative consistency of rhythm, his vocals carrying the melody as he accompanies himself with drones on the harmonium while a tabla player supplies percussion, verses broken by instrumental refrains that answer the vocal melody. Nashenas has a panged yet resigned style suitable to the form, never leaning into cheap emotional theatrics. He spools out his words patiently, great feeling leavened by enlightened reservation. I picture him with his eyes closed, sitting cross-legged as he hums and croons the words that billow from the incense burning within him till the room has filled with it. Despite the focus on his voice though, this is quite dynamic music: the drumming on songs like “Life is a Heavy Burden” provides a raw, intense counterpoint to Nashenas’s steady vocal, while the blissful harmonium drone of “I Am Happy Alone” finds a common note with the primary colours of music made by children, outsider folkies, and the untrained.

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Physical media wasn’t common in Afghanistan when Nashenas was establishing himself, and radio broadcasts were the primary outlet for performers. What recordings he did make were largely for radio archives, and many of these were apparently destroyed in the wars that have ravaged the region for decades. As a result, little of Nashenas’s prime is well-documented, and prior to this compilation virtually none of what does exist had been released in the West. Life is a Heavy Burden: The Songs and Poetry of Nashenas collects highlights from a brief run of Iranian 45 pressings of Radio Afghanistan recordings from the late ‘50s. The liners elaborate:

Although hard to fully confirm, it appeared these records were part of an arrangement between someone in Radio Afghanistan and Royal, one of the major labels in Iran. …Recordings were presumably supplied to the pressing plant in Tehran to be manufactured and then sold to the Afghan diaspora in the country, or exported back to Afghanistan. It was ultimately unsuccessful, with a few singles released by Nashenas, Zaland, his wife Sara, and others such as Ustad Mahwash, Ghulam Dastagir Shaida, and Ahmad Wali. Whoever arranged it apparently did not inform the artists themselves!

You’d never know how screamingly rare these pieces are, or that they were not sourced from masters, from the job Strut Records has done with Life is a Heavy Burden. The fidelity is brilliant, clearly of another epoch in terms of technology but unmarred by the dust and rough handling endured by near-70-year-old second-hand discs. I’d recommend this one to anyone with an interest in mid-century music from the Middle East and South Asia, or its influence on Western pop and experimental music from the ‘60s onward.

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#nashenas #afghan music #afghanistan #middle eastern music #ghazal #ghazals #urdu music #dari music #pashto music #urdu #dari #pashto #'50s music #music review #vinyl record #strut records

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opposumghost · 1 year

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so this exists.

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i fucking love the effort put into this, for multiple reasons: 1) it's not the instrumentals and a guy singing. this dude RERECORDED THE FUCKING ALBUM! He would've had to mix this shit! This would've taken sooooooo long. 2) I like how it's not a language remotely close to english. finnish isn't even part of the same language family as english. finnish is a part of the uralic languge family (a group of languages comprising much of northern europe and asia).

most languages in europe are from Indo-european (english, spanish, french, swedish ect.) but don't be fooled, as this family also spreads out to many north indian and west asian languages (like hindi, pursian and pashto).

a lot of those languages share words (like the english 'three', punjabi 'ਤਿੰਨ (tina)' and greek 'tria'). but finnish? FUCK NO! three in finnish is 'kolme' (K from "king', ol from 'old' and 'me' from 'men') so that means this album has almost no words that sound ANYTHING like the original. The only two titles that sound and look like the original are "Pink Triangle" ("Pinkki Kilmio") and "El Scorcho", which is just same same cuz it's spanish. so the result is a set of songs that sound NOTHING AT FUCKING ALL like the originals, with many of the melodies having to be kinda stretched to include the new words and sounds that rivers cuomo never had the fortune of singing 3) OMG THIS WOULD'VE TAKEN SO LONG TO FUCKING TRANSLATE! when you translate you have to take in so much more than just the words themselves you have to take in: change in phrasing, tone, cultural references, how to get the same emphasis into this new language from the one your translating from. and it's SO much worse with poetry and songs. The beat sounds off, the rhyme is completely gone, many translations just sound like nonsense being read aloud if the original lyrics maybe don't rhyme or are more impressionistic. and this is kinda easier with languages like english to french or spanish or swedish that share some vocab and have roots in many languages. but again i will remind you that finnish has none of that familiarity, so how these sounds sound to finnish native speaker must just be WILD!

he also did the blue album ffs

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#finnish #weezer #blue album #pinkerton #linguistic #linguistics memes #musical shitpost #this has way too much effort put into it #give this man an award #the buddy holly cover is a personal highlight

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khaperai · 1 year

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#bakht zamina #Spotify #this is the song the mujahideen allegedly murdered over #however others say she died of TB #pashto music #communist music #Afghan music

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shehzadi · 1 year

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3. 3 songs that mean something to you, 25. 3 people you’d never get tired of, and 37. 3 languages you would love to learn

3. lose yourself by eminem, first love/late spring by mitski, vienna by billy joel

25. my mum, one of my older cousin sisters and one of my mamus (mum’s youngest brother)

37. arabic, pashto, farsi (& continue learning/practicing my spanish)

3 things asks

#thank u for the ask :)#i also want to learn russian but that comes after persian and arabic based languages #asks

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murder-popsicle · 1 year

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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒 ――

FULL NAME. Jane Buchanan Barnes

NICKNAMES. Bucky, Buck

ALIAS(ES). Winter Soldier

SEX. Female

HEIGHT. 5′11

AGE. Verse dependent; born in 1917

ZODIAC. Pisces

SPOKEN LANGUAGES. English, Irish, Russian, Yiddish, Italian, Polish, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Kurdish, Hebrew, Turkish, Serbian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Tagalog, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hokkien, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil

𝐏𝐇𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 ――

HAIR COLOR. Dark brown

EYE COLOR. Blue

SKIN TONE. Fair

BODY TYPE. Tall, broad, solid. A bit of a human tank.

VOICE. A clear alto with a New York accent thick enough to float rocks.

DOMINANT HAND. Right, but since Zola’s experiments she can use her left with equal skill.

POSTURE. Straight, self-controlled. Good at not looming, despite her size.

SCARS. So, so many.

TATTOOS. None

PIERCINGS. One in each earlobe

BIRTHMARKS. None

MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURES. High-tech prosthetic arm

𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃 ――

PLACE OF BIRTH. Brooklyn, New York

HOMETOWN. Brooklyn, New York

SIBLINGS. Four sisters and one brother; her brother and one of her sisters died in childhood.

PARENTS. George Barnes and Winifred O’Brien

A𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 ――

OCCUPATION. Grocery store clerk, US Army sergeant, prisoner of war, assassin, SHIELD agent, Avenger

CURRENT RESIDENCE(S). New York.

CLOSE FRIENDS. Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, Maria Hill, Clint Barton (most of the time), Yelena Belova, @oftomorrow‘s Clark Kent

FINANCIAL STATUS. Adequate

DRIVER’S LICENSE. Yes

CRIMINAL RECORD. Verse dependent

VICES. Whiskey, cigarettes, holding on to broken things in case she ever needs to repurpose their usable parts

𝐒𝐄𝐗 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 ――

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Bisexual.

LIBIDO. Medium.

TURN-OFFS. Poor hygiene, playboy attitude, callous treatment of others

LOVE LANGUAGE. Food, words, physical affection (massages, hair-washing, foot rubs, etc.)

RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES. She loves Natasha Romanoff with her whole heart and is deeply committed to their relationship.

𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒 ――

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. “Medusa” by Karine Polwart

HOBBIES TO PASS TIME. Cooking, reading, fiber crafts, playing with the cats

MENTAL ILLNESSES. Depression, PTSD, occasional anger/aggression issues

SELF-CONFIDENCE LEVEL. Varies depending on what kind of day she’s had.

tagging: @abrooklynboy (Stella), @aoete, @bokketo (Stevie and/or Clint), @taliaromanova, @parainvestigate, @symbioteburnout, @flighttruth, @invncibleiron, @madeofmarblex, @knowseverythingaboutyou, @lovelostdelinquent, @despair-with-walnuts

#dash games #meme answers #headcanon

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persianatpenn · 1 year

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Ghazals -- discovering a new poetic tradition

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I’d originally planned on diving into a Persian poem for this week’s blog post, but my curiosity about the structure of the poems themselves got the best of me. So today, I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned about ghazals, a poetry form (think haikus or sonnets) that emerged in the Arab world but has since become associated with Persian poetry. The word “ghazal” (غزل) originates from Arabic, a nod to the form’s roots. In the Arab world, any poem on the subject of love, regardless of structure or rhyme, was categorized as a ghazal. When the poetic form arrived in what is now Iran, Persian ghazals initially retained this same ambiguity, but over the years, ghazals became a standardized form.

These standardized ghazals are a minimum of five couplets and usually do not exceed fifteen lines. Classical Persian poets traditionally considered seven lines to be the “sweet spot.” Usually, the first couplet introduces a theme, and is constructed using a rhyme followed by a refrain. Subsequent couplets repeat the refrain, but rhyme the second line with both lines of the first stanza. Thus, ghazals follow something along the lines of an AA BA CA DA rhyme pattern. The final couplet usually incorporates the poet's signature, typically by referring to the author in the first or third person. Frequently, this also involves weaving in the poet's own name or some derivation of its meaning. Unlike some forms of poetry that revolve around a plot or are narrative in style, ghazals are composed of completely independent lines that are only loosely connected by an overarching theme.

Ghazals gained prominence during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and were popularized by legendary Persian poets like Rumi and Hafiz. Eventually, poets writing in Urdu, Hindi, Pashto, Turkish, and Hebrew also adopted the form. However, ghazals were not popularized in the English-speaking world until the 1960s, when Indian musicians introduced ghazals to English-speaking audiences in the form of songs. In India and Pakistan, the art of singing or performing ghazals is an age-old tradition. Later, Indian poet Agha Shahid Ali introduced ghazals in their classical poetic form to American poets, several of which have since made attempts to write ghazals in English.

The intricate construction of the ghazal makes it by far the most fascinating poetic form I’ve learned about – it makes me quite disappointed that all those poetry units back in elementary school English class never introduced us to ghazals. Writing (bad) poems was a favorite pastime of mine as a kid, and reading about ghazals has rekindled my urge to write poetry – maybe in ghazal form this time! As the nature of ghazals makes translation very difficult, I’ve made a new goal of one day being able to read these masterpieces in their original Persian. For now, I’ve been listening: although Indian ghazal performances are much more widespread, I found a stunning performance of Rumi’s poems that I’d like to share with you all.

--kagamin

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gazal-1-history

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gazal-2

https://poets.org/glossary/ghazal

#poetry #iranian poetry #ghazals

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