Ghalib, like all great poets, has been interpreted and presented by different critics in different ways. To a certain extent the nature of his poetry too is responsible for the controversies about him-it is so different from the general trend of Urdu poetry. But it is different from other poetry in so many ways that any consensus about a definite direction of his poetry has not been possible as yet. He has been presented as a philosopher, an iconoclast, a pioneer ...
