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    The poem "The Time to Love" by Taufiq Rafat explores the theme of love. It argues that love has no set time, season, or place - it arises whenever and wherever the heart desires. The first stanza says love cannot be forced or limited to a particular month or season. The second stanza notes that while poets sometimes associate spring with love, love itself needs no season and can manifest anywhere. The final stanza concludes that love has its own climate and country, transcending boundaries of time, place, or other restrictions. The poem suggests love is spontaneous and universal.

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    The poem "The Time to Love" by Taufiq Rafat explores the theme of love. It argues that love has no set time, season, or place - it arises whenever and wherever the heart desires. The first stanza says love cannot be forced or limited to a particular month or season. The second stanza notes that while poets sometimes associate spring with love, love itself needs no season and can manifest anywhere. The final stanza concludes that love has its own climate and country, transcending boundaries of time, place, or other restrictions. The poem suggests love is spontaneous and universal.

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    The poem "The Time to Love" by Taufiq Rafat explores the theme of love. It argues that love has no set time, season, or place - it arises whenever and wherever the heart desires. The first stanza says love cannot be forced or limited to a particular month or season. The second stanza notes that while poets sometimes associate spring with love, love itself needs no season and can manifest anywhere. The final stanza concludes that love has its own climate and country, transcending boundaries of time, place, or other restrictions. The poem suggests love is spontaneous and universal.

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    The Time to Love

    By

    Taufiq Rafat
    The time to love

    Is when the heart says so

    Who cares

    If it is muddy august

    Or tepid april?

    For Love’s infalliable feet

    Step daintly

    from vantage to vantage

    to the waiting salt-lick

    If Spring

    Has any importance

    It is for us

    The rhymsters,

    Who need

    A bough to perch on

    While we sing

    Love is a country

    With it’s own climate


    Introduction of the poet:
    Taufiq Rafat was a poet and a writer. He was born in 1927 in Sialkot. Where his family
    had it’s ancestral home. His father Khwaja Ghulam Muhammad Hazir was a trans-India supply
    character for the British Indian Army during the Second World War and moved to Dhera Dhun.
    At partition in 1947 Sialkot became a part of Pakistan and family return to it. Taufiq Rafat was
    educated in English colonial system at Dhera-Dun, Aligarh and Lahore. He graduated from the
    Hailey College of commerce, Lahore and became a company executive. Taufiq Rafat started
    writing poetry when he was “12”.

    “The time to leave” is the first poem of Taufiq Rafat in his first collection of book “Arrival of the
    Monsoon” the book was published in 1985 and has been divided into four parts. In each part of
    the book, the poetry written in a specific period of Rafat’s life has been included.

    Part I- Arrival of the Monsoon (1947-69)

    II- Going after Geese (1970-73)

    III- Wedding in the flood (1974-76)

    IV- A Rumor of change (1977-78)

    Thematical Concern:-
    In “The time to Love”, Taufiq Rafat has explored the universal theme of love. But, unlike the
    poetic sensibility of the traditional love poets who hanker after a beloved in their poetry, this
    love poem of Rafat echoes the poetic sensibility of the great Romantic English poets, and the
    deep poetic thoughts scattered in the deep ghazals by the Pakistani Urdu poets. This poem has
    more to do with the “Intellectual and Philosophical” side of love than the traditional and
    emotional aspects.

    Critical Analysis:
    In first stanza poet says that love has no time. It stimulates in oneself in its own accord, at its
    own time. One cannot say that I shall love you at a particular time. I cannot do it now, as I don’t
    have time. Love cannot be started in a particular month as of August when everything is muddy.
    I t cannot be said that it will usurp in hot month like April. It is a common trend that love does
    not make any mistake, so it can move anywhere, at any time. Love’s infallible feet can touch any
    main point to other without the hindrance from the outside weather or seasonal factors.

    In “2nd Stanza” poet moves on keeping it’s previous thought pattern of time of love. He
    moves from this time factor to seasons to make us realize that it has no season as well. He says
    that often the poets and verse writer or rhymesters (those who write or compose poetry) often say
    that spring is the season for love to spring. He is of the

    view that love needs not any particular season. It can sit on any branch of tree at any time.
    Without considering its soothing and harming effects.

    In the “last Stanza” which consists of only two lines, the poet develops the thought
    pattern further and concludes that love has its own climate, its own country. It cannot be
    restrained to one particular time, seasons and area have needs no religious no caste, no national
    and racial boundary. It can seek it dwelling anytime, anywhere, and even to anyone. Even it can
    make or mar anything. In other words, changing the famous quote by “Milton”, Thus.

    “Love is it’s own place and itself can make heaven of hell, hell of
    heaven.

    “The time to Love” by Taufiq Rafat opts as its theme. The most celebrated and vital.

     Passion of humanity called love. This ennobling has kindled the soul of numerous poets,
    since the dawn of humanity and they have spilled incessant ink to write about it.

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