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Shirazi Turk is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century Persian poet, Hāfez of Shiraz. It has been described as "the most familiar of Hafez's poems in the English-speaking world". [ 1 ] It was the first poem of Hafez to appear in English , [ 2 ] when William Jones made his paraphrase "A Persian Song" in 1771, based on a Latin version supplied ...
Shahin Shirazi; Junayd Shirazi; Qasem-e Anvar; Saif Farghani (d. 1348) Imadaddin Nasimi; Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez; Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din; Shah Nimatullah Wali; Maghrebi Tabrizi; Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar; Salman Savaji; Sharaf al-Din Ram [21] Heydar Shirazi [22 ...
In an article comparing this poem with the better-known Shirazi Turk ode, Iraj Bashiri (1979) argues that both poems describe the five stages in the path of Love, in Sufic tradition: loss of heart (foqdān-e del), regret (ta'assof), ecstasy (wajd), loss of patience (bīsabrī), and the ardour of love (sabābat or loss of consciousness ...
But starting from the 18th century it is English which has been chosen by most of the native and international translators. This category will be relevant to major Bengali works of poetry rendered into English and also translators of Bengali poetry. A broader and more general category would be Bengali literature in translation.
The metre is known as hazaj and is the same as that of Shirazi Turk.Each bayt or verse is made of four sections of eight syllables each. In Elwell-Sutton's system, this metre is classified as 2.1.16, and it is used in 25 (4.7%) of Hafez's 530 poems.
The ten works, and the number of poems selected from each, are as follows: [3] Gitanjali - 69 poems (out of 157 poems in Song Offerings) Geetmalya - 17 poems; Naibadya - 16 poems; Kheya - 11 poems; Shishu - 3 poems; Chaitali - 1 poem; Smaran - 1 poem; Kalpana - 1 poem; Utsarga - 1 poem; Acholayatan - 1 poem; Song Offerings is a collection of ...
The poem Mazra'-ē sabz-e falak ("the Green Farmland of the Sky") is a ghazal (love song) by the 14th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.It has been called "the second most debated ghazal of Hafiz, the first being the Shirazi Turk". [1]
The second type of Persian poetry is lyric poetry, such as the ghazals of Hafez, or the spiritual poems in Rumi's collection known as the Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. These tend to be in longer metres, usually of 14 to 16 syllables long, in tetrameter form (i.e. with four feet in each hemistich or half-verse).