The Rose and the Nightingale: Allegorical Gardens in the Debate Poetry of Parvīn E’tesāmī
The significance of Parvīn E’tesāmī’s poetic garden as a complex allegory, constructed out of several smaller metaphors, has received little detailed treatment. The present study proposes to explore this garden as an instance of classical Persian allegorical gardens that generally have didactic...
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Editura Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu Arad
2021
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| Sumario: | The significance of Parvīn E’tesāmī’s poetic garden as a complex
allegory, constructed out of several smaller metaphors, has received little
detailed treatment. The present study proposes to explore this garden as an
instance of classical Persian allegorical gardens that generally have didactic
functions. As this study will argue, Parvīn’s allegorical garden is most often
rendered into a number of debates between conflicting characters selected from
a vast array of entities and endowed with particular ‘moral’ qualities interacting
without being subordinated to the authorial voice of the poet. The metaphorical
pair of lovers, ‘the rose and the nightingale,’ with a range of earthly and divine
meaning, is at the heart of this ‘garden clash’ motif, confronting other figures of
this garden, notably the thorn, water (both as raining cloud and as stream), the
ant and the moon. Though the garden represented through these debates can be
seen to function within a religious framework, it does not lead to spiritual
quietism and suppression of human efforts. |
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