اُردو رسم الخط اور خطاطی

Traditional Poetry based on "Hamd, Munajat, Naat, Manqabat, Ghazal, Qaseedah, Marsiyah, Salam, Shehr-e-Ashob, Wasokht, Rekhti, Perody etc" in structure of Masnawi, Musallas, Murabba, Mukhammas, Musaddas, Qitaa, Rubai, Ghazal, Tarkeeb band, Tarjie band, Perody etc. Modern Poetry contains Blank Verse, Sonnet, Free Verse as well as Prose Verse. In Urdu literature, Nazir Akbarabadi is first modern poet. Altaf Hussain Haali, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Ismail Merathi, Shibli Nomani, Akbar Ilahabadi, Muhammad Ali Johar, Zafar Ali Khan are the modern poets of Anjuman-e-Punjab. Ismail Meerathi started Free Verse in Urdu. Then Meera ji, N.M Rashid, Majeed Amjad, Qayyum Nazar, Sajjad Baqir Rizwi, Arif Abdul Mateen, Shuhrat Bukhari, Dr.Saadat Saeed and Anis Nagi are the main poets of modern poetry. They followed Sartre, Witiginstan, T.S Eliot etc.Their topics are Life, Death, Mortalism, Immortalism, Loneliness of a man, difficulties and problems, Anarki, feeling o f age, Linguistical trans for mation etc