Parveen Shakir was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan. She is often regarded as "The Poetess of Fragrance". Parveen Shakir employed mainly two forms of poetry in her work, one being the prevalent ghazal [plural: ghazalyaat], and the other being free verse. The most prominent themes in Shakir's poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas, though she occasionally wrote on other topics as well. Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications
Born: 24 November 1952, Karachi
Died: 26 December 1994, Islamabad
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