Dr. Hossein Aliakbari Harehdasht & Ameneh Zare,
Persian Gulf University, Iran
Hafiz and Donne are both acknowledged as outstanding practitioners of the concept of love in their own era and culture. The multilayered implications of the universal theme of love and its relation to the two poets’ historical, cultural as well as political contexts have encouraged the present comparative study of Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Hafiz’s “sonnet193.” The study is based on the hypothesis that the most dominant feature of Donne’s love sonnets is the unity of sense and sensibility, the congruity of reason and passion, whereas in the poems of Hafiz one can witness disjunction and incongruity between love and reason. Despite the varieties of techniques which were used by the two poets to explain the concept of love, both of them moved beyond the surface meaning of love and attempted to reflect the political conflicts of their time in the above mentioned poems. This research, therefore, aims at investigating how Hafiz and Donne have used the “compass” as a figure of speech not only to concretize their notion of love but also to express the symbolic significance of the circular movement of that instrument and to criticize the political conflicts of their time.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
