Motif
love as wound and grief
love_as_wound_and_grief
A motif of the Beauty Paired with Pain and Paradox family, within the sub-family Beloved and Erotic Love as Wound, Joy, and Grief. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
persian
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Persian Literature, Volume 1 CXXIX / CXXXIV / CXXXV / CXLVI; lines 16582-16605 confidence: high
The speaker draws sighs from the heart, names the addressee's sharp dart, and says words cannot represent the heart's ills.
The passage uses the beloved's sharp dart, sighs, ills of the heart, and grief language for the speaker's condition.
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