Gujarati romantic expression is incomplete without its poetic tradition. The genre, popular in early Gujarati literature, uses lyrical verse to depict the beauty of spring while exploring the joys and pains of love—fears of separation, hope of reunion. Modern poets like Kalapi (Sursinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil), the royal of Lathi state who died young in 1900, brought personal vulnerability into Gujarati love poetry.