Faiz Poems

Faiz's poetry seems to center around the idea of taking advantage of the time people have to be alive. The life that individuals have belongs solely to them, and they must do what they want and must do in their short time. One idea that I found interesting in "Poetry' Theme", was when Faiz questions certain oxymoron aspects of society, "The multitudinous creatures of these glittering cities,/Why do they keep living only in desire of death?/These lovely fields, whose bloom is bursting out,/Why does only hunger keep growing in them?" (93). In this quote, Faiz questions why things occur only to meet a negative ending. Meaning, why are there so many people in lively cities throughout the world, if they are all going to die eventually, and why do fields that are harvested for the sole purpose of feeding people only result in more hunger for the populations. Faiz refers to this relationship as "the daily battle-array of death and life" (93). This idea seems to tie into the idea of Wester imperialism, and how on the surface it may seem as if the colonizer is trying to "help" another country, but in the background it is really having negative effects on the colonized.