batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2128-l2257
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2128-l2257
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: INTRODUCTION / FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ / XVIII / XXIII; lines 2128-2257
start: '2128'
end: '2257'
translation: Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: Three lyric sections describe a beloved whose presence made the speaker’s
house heavenly, her departure or death, the speaker’s tears and tavern imagery,
a vow involving wine and the beloved, a Christian singer at dawn, and finally
the end of absence and sorrow through hope, spring, the beloved’s face, and the
Saki’s cup.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker says his lady transformed his house into a heaven while she dwelt
there and describes her with angelic grace, purity, moon-like beauty, and wisdom.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker’s heart expected rest in the city, but the lady was bound for
a distant destination and now journeys far from him.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The lady revealed the speaker’s inner secret and is described as receiving
an eternal dwelling-place in Heaven’s mansions.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker states that his friend is dead and that his remaining life is
spent without wisdom or profit.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A nightingale is described as shedding its own blood and reddening the rose’s
petals when morning unveils the rose.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker contrasts his own humble dervish condition with the lady’s imperial
crown and sovereignty in beauty.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker describes a soiled robe and a neglected book pledged for wine,
and asks God for one ray of light to pierce his night and draw him near.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker’s tears are described as a river flowing from his eyes to his
garment, and as a flood of grief turning his eyes into a bitter sea.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker vows that the brimming cup will not touch his lips until his mistress
adorns his feast and Love’s secret comes from her like a candle flame.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker calls himself a singed moth in relation to Love’s light.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:11
text: Before a tavern door, a Christian sings with pipe and drum near dawn and addresses
Hafiz concerning True Faith, today, and tomorrow.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:12
text: The speaker declares that the days of absence and bitter nights of separation
are ended.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:13
text: Autumn and winter are contrasted with the wind of spring, the Day of Hope,
and the nearness of the rose.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker says grief and disquiet no longer come to him under the protection
of his lady’s hair, and that her face comforts him.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:15
text: The speaker goes to the tavern where pipe and cymbals sound, and says his
mistress writes an ending to the history of his woe.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:16
text: The Saki is addressed as one who has shown joy’s path, with cup, wisdom, order,
and health associated with him.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Hafiz / lyric speaker
description: The first-person speaker who mourns, prays, vows, goes to the tavern,
and is named as Hafiz in the passage.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:9
- ev:14
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Lady / mistress / beloved
description: A woman described as angelic, pure, moon-like, wise, distant or dead,
crowned, sovereign in beauty, and capable of comforting the speaker.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:12
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Heart
description: The speaker’s heart is addressed and described as poor, expecting rest,
and experiencing grief.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God / Great King
description: God is directly addressed for a ray of light; the heart is said to
be a glass meant to mirror the Great King’s face.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Nightingale
description: A bird described as shedding its life’s blood and dyeing the rose’s
petals red.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Rose
description: A flower unveiled by morning and later described as near, crowned,
and associated with the forgetting of thorns.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:11
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Christian singer
description: A Christian who sings before the tavern door to pipe and drum at dawn.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Saki
description: The cupbearer addressed as showing joy’s path and associated with a
full cup, fair days, wisdom, order, and health.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
roles:
- id: role:1
label: mourning lover
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker laments the beloved’s death or absence and describes tears, grief,
and separation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:7
- ev:10
- id: role:2
label: exalted beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The lady is described with angelic grace, heavenly association, imperial
crown, beauty, and the power to comfort or end woe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:12
- ev:13
- id: role:3
label: supplicant seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker asks God for light to pierce his night and draw him near.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:4
label: personified inner companion
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The heart speaks, expects rest, and is directly addressed by the speaker.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: divine addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: God is invoked directly, and the Great King’s face is the object the clear
heart should mirror.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: self-wounding lover-bird
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The nightingale sheds its own blood and reddens the rose’s petals.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: beloved flower image
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The rose is unveiled, causes the nightingale’s jealous wound, and later appears
near with a flaming coronet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:11
- id: role:8
label: tavern singer
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The Christian sings at the tavern door with pipe and drum.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:9
label: cupbearer guide
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: The Saki is addressed as having shown joy’s path and bringing order and health
by wisdom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: heavenly house
literal_form: The speaker’s house changed into a heaven while the lady lived there.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: veil and curtain
literal_form: The lady lifts the speaker’s bosom veil and draws back the curtain
from Heaven’s mansions.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:3
label: tears as river, flood, and sea
literal_form: Tears flow like a river, grief becomes a flood, and the eyes become
a bitter sea.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:4
label: cypress-tree watered by tears
literal_form: A cypress-tree may grow beside the stream and be watered by tears.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:5
label: wine vessel and cup
literal_form: Wine vessel, brimming cup, and Saki’s cup appear in tavern and feast
contexts.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:8
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:14
- id: sym:6
label: candle flame and singed moth
literal_form: Love’s secret is compared to a candle’s flame, and the speaker is
the singed moth.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: rose and nightingale blood
literal_form: The nightingale’s blood dyes the unveiled rose’s petals red.
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:8
label: seasonal change
literal_form: Autumn and winter end or are forgotten when spring wind, hope, and
the rose arrive.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:9
label: tavern music at dawn
literal_form: Pipe, drum, and cymbals sound at the tavern around dawn or in a joyful
procession.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:13
- id: sym:10
label: clear heart as mirror
literal_form: The speaker says his heart should be clear like a glass to mirror
the Great King’s face.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Beloved’s presence, departure, and heavenly dwelling
summary: The lady’s presence makes the speaker’s house heavenly; she is later described
as bound for a distant bourne, dead, and given an eternal dwelling-place in Heaven’s
mansions.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:2
label: Mourning through rose and nightingale imagery
summary: The speaker mourns the dead friend and describes the nightingale wounding
itself and reddening the rose at morning.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Dervish speaker and exalted lady
summary: The speaker asks his heart to pardon the lady because he is a poor dervish
while she bears an imperial crown in beauty; his joy is linked to prayer beads
and God’s praise.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:4
label: Prayer, tears, wine, and hidden beloved
summary: The speaker describes tavern pledges for wine, asks God for light, weeps
rivers and floods, asks for a wine vessel, and laments the hidden cheek of Love.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Vow before the cup and flame of Love
summary: The speaker vows not to drink until the mistress adorns the feast; Love’s
secret is figured as candle flame and the speaker as a singed moth.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:6
label: Christian song at the tavern door
summary: At dawn a Christian sings outside the tavern to pipe and drum, addressing
Hafiz about True Faith and the passage from today to tomorrow.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:7
label: End of separation and arrival of hope
summary: The speaker declares absence and separation ended; autumn, winter, night,
grief, and thorns give way to spring, hope, the rose, and the beloved’s comforting
face.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- ev:12
- id: scene:8
label: Tavern joy and Saki’s cup
summary: The speaker goes joyfully to the tavern with music, says the mistress ends
his tale of separation, and praises the Saki whose cup and wisdom end care.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- ev:14
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: exalted or divine beloved transforms the world
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The beloved makes the house heaven, is angelic and pure, reveals heavenly
mansions, and comforts or ends the speaker’s sorrow.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:12
- ev:13
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is lyric and translated; the beloved may be read literally,
spiritually, or conventionally in Sufi poetics, but the extraction records only
imagery present in the passage.
- id: motif:2
label: mystical longing through absence, tears, tavern, and divine light
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The speaker laments separation, asks God for light, describes the heart as
a mirror for the Great King, and moves through tavern, wine, tears, and longing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not provide a narrative quest structure; the motif is
based on repeated images of longing and approach to God or Love.
- id: motif:3
label: departure and separation of the beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- departure
basis: The beloved is said to be bound for a distant bourne, journeys far away,
and causes days of absence and nights of separation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: The departure overlaps with possible death imagery and may not be a separate
mythic journey.
- id: motif:4
label: return or ending of separation
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: The speaker says absence and separation are ended, hope shows its face, and
the mistress writes an ending to the history of woe.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:13
confidence: medium
cautions: No literal physical return is narrated; the ending may be emotional, poetic,
or symbolic.
- id: motif:5
label: seasonal renewal after sorrow
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Autumn and winter are superseded by spring wind, hope, the rose’s nearness,
and the forgetting of thorns.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: high
cautions: The seasonal movement functions as lyric imagery rather than a full calendrical
myth.
- id: motif:6
label: death and renewed hope
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: The beloved or friend is said to be dead in one section, while a later section
declares the end of separation and the emergence of hope and spring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:10
- ev:11
confidence: low
cautions: The text does not explicitly narrate resurrection; the link between death
and later renewal is thematic and uncertain across adjacent lyric sections.
- id: motif:7
label: spiritual guidance through cupbearer wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The Saki is praised for showing joy’s path and for wisdom that brings order
and health to the speaker’s breast.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
confidence: medium
cautions: The Saki is a conventional lyric figure; the passage does not explicitly
define him as a formal sage or teacher.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2128-2135, XXIII stanza 1
quote_or_summary: The lady changes the speaker’s house into heaven and is described
as angelic, pure, moon-like, wise, and beautiful.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2136-2142, XXIII stanza 2
quote_or_summary: The heart expects rest in the city, but the lady is addressed
to a distant bourne and journeys far away.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2143-2149, XXIII stanza 3
quote_or_summary: The lady lifts the speaker’s bosom veil, reveals an inner secret,
draws back the curtain from Heaven’s mansions, and receives an eternal dwelling-place
there.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2150-2156, XXIII stanza 4
quote_or_summary: The speaker says life remains after his friend’s death; a nightingale
sheds its own blood and reddens the rose when morning unveils it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2157-2163, XXIII stanza 5
quote_or_summary: The heart is told to pardon the lady; the speaker is a humble
dervish, the lady bears an imperial crown in beauty, and Hafiz holds beads worn
with God’s praise.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2167-2173, XXIV stanza 1
quote_or_summary: The speaker says robe and book are pledged for wine, his heart
is dusty though it should mirror the Great King, and he asks God for light to
draw him near.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2174-2180, XXIV stanza 2
quote_or_summary: Tears flow from the eyes like a river; a cypress-tree may be watered
by those tears; grief makes the eyes a bitter sea; the speaker asks for the wine
vessel.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2181-2187, XXIV stanza 3
quote_or_summary: The speaker vows not to drink until his mistress adorns the feast
and Love’s secret comes like a candle flame; he names himself a singed moth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 2195-2201, XXIV stanza 5
quote_or_summary: A Christian sings before the tavern door to pipe and drum at dawn,
addressing Hafiz about True Faith, sweet today, and unknown tomorrow.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 2205-2211, XXV stanza 1
quote_or_summary: The speaker declares that days of absence, bitter nights of separation,
blighting stars, autumn abundance, and autumn mirth are at an end when spring
wind moves over the earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 2212-2218, XXV stanza 2
quote_or_summary: The Day of Hope shows its face, powers of night no longer prevail,
the rose is near, thorns are forgotten, and winter ends.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: lines 2219-2225, XXV stanza 3
quote_or_summary: The speaker says confusion, anguish, grief, and disquiet are over;
under the lady’s hair and by her gracious face he is comforted.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: lines 2226-2232, XXV stanza 4
quote_or_summary: The speaker goes light-hearted to the tavern where pipe and cymbals
sound, and his mistress writes an ending to the tale of separation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: lines 2233-2239, XXV stanza 5
quote_or_summary: The Saki is praised for showing joy’s path; his cup, wisdom, order,
and health are linked to the end of care.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied English translation and line range.
Motif assignments are cautious because the passage is lyric rather than narrative
and may combine literal, conventional, and mystical imagery.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly compare its imagery with another text, tradition, or motif family beyond supporting candidate motif classification.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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