Hamid Olimjon and “O‘rik gullaganda”
According to the textbook, Hamid Olimjon was born on 12 December 1909 in Jizzakh; his real name was Abdulhamid; he lost his father at the age of four and grew up with his grandfather Azimbobo. His grandfather kindled in him a love of reading; he listened to the dastans and terma songs of Fozil Yo‘ldosh o‘g‘li, and his mother Komila aya knew tales by heart, so the poet was familiar with folk oral art from childhood. His childhood memory held the mark of the suppression of the 1916 Jizzakh uprising. He studied at a teachers’ college and the Higher Pedagogical Institute; during his student years the verse collection “Ko‘klam” and the story collection “Tong shabadasi” appeared; later collections and dastans such as “Oygul bilan Baxtiyor” were published. In 1939 he became executive secretary of the Writers’ Union. The textbook calls him a lyric poet by nature and a painter of delicate feelings; the most important thing for his lyrical hero is happiness. In “O‘rik gullaganda” an apricot tree blossoms white in front of his window; a breeze carries away the scent of the blossom; each spring the poet asks “do I have happiness?”, and the winds and birds answer “you do”; in the last stanza it is said that fortune is abundant and that the right of those who passed without ever seeing a spring belongs to him too; the poem ends with the image it began with.
The class reads the poem in turn and divides it into 4 parts: blossoming, the poet’s thought, the winds’ answer, ending. Give each part a title.