Motif
music mediating hidden sorrow and desire
music_mediating_hidden_sorrow_and_desire
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Lovesickness and Longing. 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 LONDON / WILLIAM HEINEMANN / INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ; lines 1691-1831 confidence: high
The speaker says a hidden one weeps within his heart, his soul will tear apart a painted veil, and he calls a minstrel to play a mournful story on the zither.
The minstrel is called to make the speaker's mournful story sound from the zither, and music later becomes the proclamation of the beloved's love.
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