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Persian Poetry: Rumi, Hafez, and the Ghazal — Homework
Review this week's notes on the ghazal form before answering.
- 1.What is a radif, and what effect does its repetition build across a ghazal?
- 2.Why can a ghazal's couplets each feel like a separate, independent poem?
- 3.Why is the disagreement among translators about Rumi's longing not necessarily a translation failure?
- 4.In four or more sentences, explain how Hafez's layered imagery can support two readings at once, and why a poem might want that quality.
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