Analysis of the ghazal “Ustina” and lyric poetry
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Describe in your own words the picture in the second couplet of “Ustina”.
The beloved’s boxwood-straight stature with a rose face as if grafted on – stature and face in beautiful harmony.
2
Write the numbers of two couplets of “Ustina” that use exaggeration and explain why.
E.g. couplet 3 (so many calamities on one person) and couplet 6 (a thousand Besutun mountains); such things cannot happen in real life.
3
What does the poet want to tell the ruler in the line urging him to treat bad and good alike? Write your view.
Just as sunlight falls equally on ruin and prosperity, the ruler should be even-handed with all in kindness and justice.
4
Analyse Bobur’s couplet “Keltursa yuz baloni” with a “what – how” table.
What: the lover accepts even calamities from the faithless beloved. How: the homonym “yuz” (tajnis, iham) and inversion.
5
Describe the cold in the ghazal “Qish” in five sentences in your own words.
The answer should include the harshest winter, thick clothes not being enough, being shut indoors and the plight of the poor elderly.