page_title: Subh-e-Azadi
hierarchical_section_title: Subh-e-Azadi
caption_attribution_description: English: Mobile screenshot of Subh-e-Azadi poem taken from urdushahkar.org website.
context_page_description: Subh-e-Azadi, also spelled Subh-e-Aazadi or written as Subh e Azadi, is an Urdu language poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz written in 1947. The poem is often noted for its prose style, marxist perspectives, disappointment, anguish, and critic atmosphere. It centers partition of India after the British rule was ended in the Indian subcontinent, leading to rise different concerns and feelings associated with multi-ethnic origin. The poem primarily revolves around the poet's sentiments and emotions about those people who migrated from one sovereign state to another, leaving their native places. Subh-e-Azadi was written as an expression of solidarity with the people who was living either in India or Pakistan before the region split into two independent nations.
  The poem illustrates split of Indian subcontinent in an imaginary style, covering aftermath and its related events as personally felt or realized by the poet. The poem also illustrates displeasure of the poet which he claimed or saw across India–Pakistan borders. Faiz expresses his emotional pain, sadness or distress about the cost paid for sovereignty and suggests a degree of resignation.
context_section_description: Subh-e-Azadi (lit.'Dawn of Independence' or 'Morning of freedom'), also spelled Subh-e-Aazadi or written as Subh e Azadi, is an Urdu language poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz written in 1947. The poem is often noted for its prose style, marxist perspectives, disappointment, anguish, and critic atmosphere. It centers partition of India after the British rule was ended in the Indian subcontinent, leading to rise different concerns and feelings associated with multi-ethnic origin. The poem primarily revolves around the poet's sentiments and emotions about those people who migrated from one sovereign state to another, leaving their native places. Subh-e-Azadi was written as an expression of solidarity with the people who was living either in India or Pakistan before the region split into two independent nations.
  The poem illustrates split of Indian subcontinent in an imaginary style, covering aftermath and its related events as personally felt or realized by the poet. The poem also illustrates displeasure of the poet which he claimed or saw across India–Pakistan borders. Faiz expresses his emotional pain, sadness or distress about the cost paid for sovereignty and suggests a degree of resignation.
caption: The original text and first edition of Subh-e-Azadi poem
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