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Learn about Hafez, one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets, who wrote love, spirituality, and protest poems. Explore his biography, works, and influence on Iranian culture and literature.
Jan 16, 2024 · Read translations of eight poems by Hafez, a Persian Sufi poet and one of the most influential figures in Persian literature. Learn about his life, his genre of lyric poetry, and his themes of love and divine inspiration.
Poems by Hafez Shirazi. Hafez Shams-ud-Dīn Muhammad Shirazi was born in 1326 in the Persian city of Shiraz, Iran. A master of the poetic ghazal form and a fervent follower of the works of Rumi, Saadi and Nazmi, his collected.
Hafez primarily wrote in the literary genre of lyric poetry or ghazals, which is the ideal style for expressing the ecstasy of divine inspiration in the mystical form of love poems. He was a Sufi. [1] Themes of his ghazals include the beloved, faith and exposing hypocrisy.
The poems of Hafez ix Hafez composed the bulk of his poetry in the form of ghazal. A ghazal is a lyric poem, rather like an English sonnet, whose size usually ranges from seven to thirteen couplets. It does not necessarily have a definite subject, but often deals with love and beauty, interspersed with some
Ode 487. Already was the wine-cup on the wing. The holy city of intoxication.’. With a stout flask for fellow-traveller. And mocked my foolish hopes of winning her. ‘Thou mark for all the shafts of evil tongues! Like my good girdle – not for all thy songs! Seest but thyself the centre and the end.
By Hafez. Translated by Dick Davis. For years my heart inquired of me. Where Jamshid's sacred cup might be, And what was in its own possession. It asked from strangers, constantly; Begging the pearl that's slipped its shell. From lost souls wandering by the sea. Last night I took my troubles to.
