Motif
Captive lover unable to break bonds
captive_lover_unable_to_break_bonds
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Forbidden and Transgressive Love. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan XVIII / XXVII / CHAPTER IV / CHAPTER V; lines 2879-2969 confidence: medium
A learned gentleman is captive to attachment and bears reproach; an admonisher warns him of calumny, but he says suffering contempt is easier than forgoing the beloved's company, with images of fatality, the eye, and an antelope led by a string.
The learned gentleman speaks of fatality, inability to abandon the beloved, and the antelope led by a string.
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