Faiz Poem

in the poem, "Love, Do Not Ask" by Faiz he explains his perception of love based on the world around him, and how it differs from his view of love. although he has not witnessed the "true" form of love that has been formed through media and such, he wishes to. his great use of the superficial definition love, created by the media, makes the reader think that he has actually been in a love like the one describes. in the first stanza, Faiz would imply that the love he ONCE had made life worth living; it gave him great pain; its beauty "kept the earth's springtimes from decay;" his whole life was dedicated to this love. Within the first line of the following stanza he states, "it was not true, all this, but only wishing." it turned out that he was imagining all of this. this unrealistic romantic view of love generated by the romantic novels or the media, he found out, does not ring true to everyones perception of love. i think he just wants the reader to understand that love, as defined by others, will not be the same for everyone. and the love that we read about in novels or see on tv is not the reality of true love, even though the reader would like it to be.