What is the summary and analysis A prison evening by Faiz Ahmad Faiz?

Answer 1

In the poem 'A Prison Evening', the poet describes the arrival of dawn. When the sun sets the stars stars are appearing little by little like each rung of a staircase. The dawn may be the darkest days of the poet in the prison. But he finds beauty even in his darkest times. The wind that blows, he thinks, to be the nature whispering something about love. In that serene night he tries to think about his beloved. He longs to be with her. But the prison walls are constrains that prevent him from the physical presence of his beloved. But in his mind he creates a romantic mood in that eerie prison night. He consoles himself that even though people can put off lamps to prevent lovers from meeting, they cannot prevent the moon from spreading light for them. He finds that the nature is sympathising with him while h are being cruel.

Answer 2

Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "A Prison Evening" with certainty depicts an individual kept from their "lover" in "prison" (Faiz 17). Faiz uses imagery to convert our idea of a typical prison to his romantic notion of what appears to be a man in love with love, in love with a consuming passion and need for who he loves, and although he is confined by the hands of others this will not stop him from pursuing his own intentions through an interlude with himself and his surroundings.

For, he describes that "night comes down the spiral/staircase of the evening" and "the breeze passes by so very close/as if someone just happened to speak of love," as if his "lover" is there with him in spirit but then he remembers "from every corner, dark-green shadows/in ripples, come toward me/at any moment they may break over me/like the waves of pain each time I remember/this separation from my lover" (Faiz 2-5, 13-17). We feel pain for this individual in the aspect that he cannot be with his beloved, and in turn this make us feel grateful to have our beloveds company, to not be held from their embrace by prison walls. In essence, Faiz implies that through this power of love no "tyrants" can impart their control and although "this thought keeps consoling me/though tyrants may command that lamps be smashed/in rooms where lovers are destined to meet/they cannot snuff out the moon, so today/nor tomorrow, no tyranny will succeed/no poison of torture make me bitter/if just one evening in prison/can be so strangely sweet/if just one moment anywhere on this Earth" (Faiz 18-26).

Answer 3

'A Prison evening' is a beautiful poem written by the Pakistani Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz. The poem 'A Prison evening' is a companion poem of the poem 'A Prison dawn' by Faiz himself. This poem was written by the poet in the times when he was imprisoned under the safety act of being involved in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case. The poem is an emotional representation of the poets life in the prison and his need to be with his loved one. The poem starts with the sensual image of the night. The poet says that each star is acting as a step of the ladder through which night is climbing down from the evening. He feels like the breeze that passed close to him is whispering a love note in his ears. the night is the darkest of the times, but the poet finds pleasantries even in the darkness through the stars and the breeze. Just like the inmates of the prison the trees in the yard of the prison are refugees who long to go back to their home. The luster of the moon is turning the shine of the stars into beautiful dust of sheen. The poet says that from every corner dark green shadows approaches him which is the grief of separation from his lover. These dark grief break over him like a wave of pain that hurts his heart. In the last stanza the poet states that whatever power tries to block the lovers they will always fail as they can only block them physically but they'll be always together spiritually. even if the tyrants snuff out the candle in the room where two lovers meet, they can't extinguish the light of the nature which is the moon. With that note the poet is content thinking that if he can be this pleasant in a dark prison he could be happy anywhere.

Answer 4

In the poem 'A Prison Evening' the poet