The Poetry of Syed Ali Hamid: An Evaluation

This article peeps into the poetry of Syed Ali Hamid who is known for his naturalness, cosmopolitan vision and loving heart. He is a poet of desire—desire which creates hopes resulting in a new life. As he writes ghazal in English, he knows how to make his poems beautiful with figures. With his poetry, he experiences life and attempts to search for the philosophical sense of the quest for meaning. He turns the abstract into concrete and thus colours the ontology of desire to make the readers feel its presence.