![]() He says after it rains the clouds start to “thin away” and almost die out so he is saying how the clouds have cried and died in their own grief completely. The third stanza he goes back into talking about death. ![]() ![]() The second stanza he is saying once our weakness crosses a limit instead of crying all anyone can do is “sigh.” He says that “water” which symbolizes tears turns into “air” which symbolizes sighing. Some research I did explained how an ”individual” dies at the end of pain but this pain turns into joy because he/she is returning to “God.” He is basically saying pain is so much that it manages to cure itself. When pain exceeds a certain limit it becomes its own remedy. He then explains how pain becomes its own medicine. Which you can also connect to how an individual wants to be a part of a community. To be consumed by the whole is the ultimate joy of the part, which is why the tiny drop wants to die in the stream. He talks about the “waterbead” wanting to “die” in the stream. In Verse five stanza one he talks about a small drop of water. I realized through these verses that he was very lonely and had an overwhelming sense of loss of community and God. When I read each one on its own it helped me understand it better. When I read them straight through they didn’t make sense to me. When I first read his “ghazals” I had a very difficult time understanding them. ![]() Mirza Ghalib was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire. ![]()
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