Motif
lover as prey of the beloved-hunter
lover_as_prey_of_the_beloved_hunter
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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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 hunter she, and I the helpless prey"; the speaker is wounded and sick, his heart is thrown into a sea of sorrow, and Good Fortune slips the rein.
The passage explicitly casts the female figure as hunter and the speaker as helpless prey, with toils drawn around him.
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