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ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Legendary poetess Parveen Shakir
was remembered on her 64th birth anniversary across the country on
Thursday.
According to Radio Pakistan, She was a legendary female poet
who started poetry in her childhood.
Parveen Shakir was the first female poetess who expressed
emotions and feelings of a young girl in a realistic manner.
Spontaneity in expression was the hallmark of her poetry
that mesmerized the young lot especially girls.
Parveen Shakir started writing at a young age, penning both
prose and poetry, and contributing columns in Urdu newspapers, and
a few articles in English dailies.
She was highly educated with two masters degrees, one in
English Literature and one in Linguistics. She also held a Ph.D
and another masters degree in Bank Administration.
Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the
concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily
integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications.
Her famous poetry books include “Khushbu”. “Sad-Barg “,
Khud’kalaami” and Inkar.
On December 26, 1994, Shakir’s car collided with a bus while
she was on her way to work in Islamabad.
The accident resulted in her death, a great loss to the Urdu
poetry world. The road on which the accident took place is named
after her.