Hafez is really into auto-flattery
Posted: 01 December 2006 09:19 PM   [ Ignore ]
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OK, maybe it would be better described as “reflexive”.  Anyway, Hafez just likes to talk to/about himself at the end of every poem.  Just like a rapper with a tag line. 

It would be nice to have a Hafez movie where he’s a rapping youth. 

Like this bit of attached poetry.  He ends with:

she’re HAfez hame beyt’ol’qazale ma’refatast
Afarin bar nafse delkesh va lotfe soxanash.

(yes, I use x not kh.  Why two letters when you can use one?)

So, he’s saying “Hafez’s poetry is all sublime (cultured? wise? insightful?) beyts and qazals.  Kudos on his heart-pulling essence and the condescension of his speech.”  OK, that was too literal.  Kudos on his heart-throbbing essence and the grace of his speech?  The generosity of granting us his words.  That stud.  And all the girls and many of the boys go OOOOOH!  HAFEZ!

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