“Shahid’s poetry addresses something which is raw and painful because Kashmir is a wound which is yet to be healed,” she said. “Shahid’s poems navigate a language to express pain and to recognise poetry as poetry and words as words,” she added. Pakistani-American poet Shadab Zeest Hashmi said that Shahid’s poetry combined the traditions of Arabic, Urdu and Persian poetry. “Shahid is a poet of exile and this theme is enlarged in his works,” she said. She said that Shahid used Kashmir as a metaphor for paradise.

Source: Pakistan Today February 24, 2019 19:14 UTC