The Coherent Structure of Hafez\'s Ghazals (Sonnets)

Abstract

Abstract Hafez's poetry, despite its structural coherence, appears to be incoherent and fragmented. Some opponents, then, based on this surface appearance have criticized Hafez since each line of his ghazals contains an independent point some have also used this quality as a pretext to invalidate his main themes or they have separated the lines to diminish and neutralize the stinging bitterness of his critical comments. However, today, regardless of such controversial views, this independence of the lines has been considered as Hafez's craft and art. The present article, after discussing the roots of emergence of such diverse criticism, has dealt with the vital structural coherence of Hafez' ghazals interpretively posing one example from each of his mystic, witty love ghazals and clarifying the co-relationship among those lines.

Keywords

• continuous in text
• critical of text
• episodic
• Ghalandari
• Rendi
• sequence of lines
• structure