Awakening Emotion in the Works of Hafiz, Saadi an Shabi

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Tehran

10.29252/kavosh.2007.2371

Abstract

Basically, emotion is a power that releases man from all shackles of carnality and promotes him to gain the dignity he deserves. This is what has made all pioneers, orators and artists eternal. The more the emotion, the longer and heavier the effect and eternality of their speech. Due to the application of musical words, poets were the most capable person to flame up such emotion. The outstanding poets make the words pleasant and the phrase eloquent to have maximum effect on their readers. Thus, their power does not depend on their specific language they use whether old or new, rather it is due to their creation of fervent flame in their readers. This article attempts to study the effect of old Persian poets such as Hafiz and Saadi and compare them to Abolqasem-al-Shabi, the arbic poet, despite the gap of time and place among them, all the three poets tended to apply one language i.e. to awaken emotion.

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