Astronomy ASTR E-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Qasida, Sanai, Hoopoe
8 May 2016
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In the first section of the qasida , the lover yearns for somebody he or she loved but is now gone. Then the poet explain how he set out on a quest to find his love. Finally the lover explains how he managed to erase her from memory. "former abodes of loved ones" are locations where symbolical travelers stop in their journey. The poet must cry for he cannot stay together with these travellers anymore. The two opposites describe the tussle between the spiritual and materialistic interests of humans. 3)sanai believes questioning god is useless: the hoopoe refers to the muslim pilgrims undergoing spiritual cleansing. 5) by "the flower of this world", he refers to the people of the world who keep relations with the. World only for the sake of materialistic gains: rumi"s diwan icludes a metaphor from al-farid about a drinking glass.
