Summary of the poem the color of the moment by faiz ahemad faiz
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Half dark roads
A reference is made to what is probably Faiz’s best-known poem, ‘Subh e Azadi’: ‘Ye daagh daagh ujala ye shab guzeeda sahr’ (This light smeared and spotted, this night-bitten dawn’). According to Farooqi, it reflects Faiz’s sorrow at the carnage of Partition and disappointment in the freedom won without a people’s revolution. All of Faiz’s translators—from Victor Kiernan, Shiv K. Kumar, Naomi Lazard, Agha Shahid Ali, Ralph Russell to Ludmila Vasilyeva—have interpreted this poem differently. But they have all been enthralled by it.
Another poem which speaks for our times, which Farooqi quotes in her introduction, is the one he wrote after reading the letters of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A quote from the progressive writer Sajjad Zaheer explains its context. “Many poems in Zindan Nama were written by him in response to political events taking place in the wider world. Hence several international incidents or concerns—Iran, Israel, Africa, the arms race between the nations—figure in the poems again and again.”