Motif
beloved as hunter and speaker as prey
beloved_as_hunter_and_speaker_as_prey
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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Poems from the Divan of Hafiz FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ / XVIII / XXIII / XXVII; lines 2305-2334 confidence: high
The female figure is hunter and the speaker helpless prey; she draws toils around him, throws his heart into a sea of sorrow, binds camel loads, vanishes, and Good Fortune slips the rein like a timid foal.
The female figure is called the hunter, the speaker helpless prey, and the speaker is surrounded by her toils.
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