batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2562-l2634
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2562-l2634
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XXVIII / XXXII / XXXIII / XXXIV; lines 2562-2634
start: '2562'
end: '2634'
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: In poem XXXIV the speaker dreams of angels at a tavern door, Adam’s clay
being shaped into a cup, divine love placed as a burden, Adam’s temptation, competing
creeds, a moth drawn to love’s fire, and Hafiz tearing away the veil of Ignorance
from Thought. In poem XXXV the speaker repeatedly asks that past friends, loyal
lovers, deliverers from bondage, wine-drinking companions, tears, sorrow, and
the keepers of the heart’s key not be forgotten.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker reports a dream in which angels stand outside a tavern door, knock
unsuccessfully, weep, and mold a cup from Adam’s clay while people sleep.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The poem says Heaven could not bear the burden of God’s love, so God sought
a messenger elsewhere and the speaker’s name was written in the Book of Fate.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker states that concord lies between the Lord and himself, and that
Huris in Paradise respond with glad songs of praise.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: Father Adam is described as having gone astray after being tempted by a single
grain of corn.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker contrasts torchlight shadows with the true fire of Love, where
radiance draws a moth and leaves it scorched and drooping.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: Hafiz is said to have torn the veil of Ignorance from the face of Thought.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker recalls bitterness, an envenomed cup, a sweeter draught, wine-drinking
companions, dead loyal lovers, and repeated cries not to be forgotten.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker returns to bonds and remembers hands that once broke a poor slave’s
chain.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: The speaker connects tears with remembered rose gardens beside the Zindeh
Rud and the forgetting of life’s misery.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:10
text: Sorrow is personified as making a lair in the speaker’s breast, while the
speaker addresses gates of the heart and those who held its key.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker / Hafiz
description: The first-person dreamer and remembering voice; explicitly addressed
as Hafiz near the end of poem XXXV.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: angels
description: Figures who stand outside the tavern door, knock in vain, weep, and
mold a cup from Adam’s clay.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Adam / Father Adam
description: Adam’s clay is used to mold a cup; Father Adam is also said to have
gone astray through temptation.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: God / Lord
description: The divine figure who lays the burden of love on Heaven and is in concord
with the speaker.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Huris
description: Paradisal figures who are glad and move through green glades with songs
of praise.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: remembered friends, lovers, and deliverers
description: Past friends, loyal lovers, wine companions, and hands that once broke
a slave’s chain are repeatedly invoked as not to be forgotten.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Sorrow
description: Personified as a female presence making a lair in the speaker’s breast.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
roles:
- id: role:1
label: dreamer and recipient of divine love
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker dreams of angels and later says God’s love and the Book of Fate
involve him.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: weeping makers of the cup
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The angels knock, weep, and mold the cup from Adam’s clay.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: primordial human and tempted ancestor
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Adam’s clay is named, and Father Adam is described as going astray through
temptation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: divine beloved or lord
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage speaks of God’s love and concord between the speaker and his
Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:5
label: paradisal celebrants
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Huris in Paradise are made glad and sing praise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: remembered companions and liberators
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The speaker asks that friends, loyal lovers, and those who broke his chain
not be forgotten.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:7
label: poet revealing thought
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Hafiz is singled out as tearing away the veil of Ignorance from Thought.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:8
label: indwelling affliction
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Sorrow is said to have made a lair in the speaker’s breast.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: tavern door
literal_form: door of the tavern where angels stand outside and knock
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Adam’s clay
literal_form: clay of Adam used to mold a cup
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: cup and red wine
literal_form: cup molded from Adam’s clay; Love’s passionate red wine; wine drunk
by companions
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: Book of Fate
literal_form: book in which the speaker’s name is written
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: grain of corn
literal_form: single grain of corn that tempts Father Adam
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:6
label: Love’s fire and moth
literal_form: radiance of Love’s true fire drawing a moth and scorching its wings
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: veil of Ignorance
literal_form: veil torn from the face of Thought
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:8
label: envenomed cup
literal_form: poisoned cup of mortal lot tasted by the speaker
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:9
label: broken chain
literal_form: chain of a poor slave broken by remembered hands
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:10
label: tears, rose gardens, and Zindeh Rud
literal_form: unceasing tears, rose gardens, and the Zindeh Rud river
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:11
label: gates and key of the heart
literal_form: gates of the speaker’s sad heart and the key to unspoken woes
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Angels at the tavern and the cup of Adam’s clay
summary: The speaker dreams that angels cannot enter the tavern, weep, and mold
a cup from Adam’s clay.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Divine love, fate, and paradisal praise
summary: Heaven cannot bear God’s love; the speaker is chosen in the Book of Fate,
and Huris in Paradise rejoice at his concord with the Lord.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Adam’s temptation and divided creeds
summary: Adam’s temptation by a grain is recalled, and the speaker describes Truth
being obscured by many jangling creeds and Fable.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Moth at the fire of Love
summary: The speaker distinguishes superficial torchlight from Love’s true fire,
which attracts and scorches the moth.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Hafiz removes the veil of Ignorance
summary: The poem praises Hafiz as uniquely tearing the veil of Ignorance from Thought.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Refrain of remembrance
summary: The speaker asks that past friends, dead loyal lovers, wine companions,
deliverers, and holders of the heart’s key not be forgotten.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
- sym:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine beloved and chosen lover
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The passage presents God’s love as an overwhelming burden, names the speaker
in the Book of Fate, and describes concord between the speaker and the Lord.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The language is lyric and devotional rather than a narrative account of
a deity-lover encounter.
- id: motif:2
label: mystical intoxication and sacred cup
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- sacred_exchange
basis: Angels bring Love’s red wine and mold a cup from Adam’s clay at the tavern
threshold; later remembered companions drink wine together.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives symbolic lyric images, not a full quest sequence or
explicit ritual exchange.
- id: motif:3
label: primordial temptation of Adam
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
basis: Father Adam is described as going astray after being tempted by a single
grain of corn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not mention a serpent, tree, garden, or explicit knowledge;
the taxonomy fit is based only on the Adamic temptation reference.
- id: motif:4
label: lover drawn to consuming fire
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: Love’s true fire draws the moth and leaves it scorched with drooping wings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage implies destructive attraction but does not explicitly state
union or annihilation.
- id: motif:5
label: removal of ignorance by poetic insight
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Hafiz is praised for tearing the veil of Ignorance from Thought.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is a compact praise statement rather than an extended wisdom narrative.
- id: motif:6
label: liberation from bondage remembered
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The speaker remembers hands that once broke a poor slave’s chain and repeatedly
asks not to forget past helpers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches this remembrance-of-deliverance
image.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly evokes an Adamic temptation pattern through the statement
that Father Adam went astray after temptation by a single grain.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Adamic fall or temptation tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage gives only a brief allusion and omits details such as Eden,
a tree, a serpent, or an explicit command.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 2564-2570
quote_or_summary: The speaker dreams of angels outside the tavern door; they knock
in vain, weep, and mold a cup from Adam’s clay, while Love’s red wine is brought
to the speaker.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2572-2578
quote_or_summary: Heaven cannot bear the burden of God’s love; God seeks a messenger
elsewhere, the speaker’s name is written in the Book of Fate, and Huris rejoice
in Paradise over the speaker’s concord with the Lord.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2580-2586
quote_or_summary: The speaker recalls Father Adam going astray through temptation
by one grain of corn and describes Truth being hard to hear amid many creeds and
the voice of Fable.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 2588-2594
quote_or_summary: The poem contrasts torchlight shadows with Love’s true fire, where
radiance draws the moth and leaves it scorched and drooping.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 2596-2599
quote_or_summary: Since earliest efforts to shape Speech, the poem says none like
Hafiz has torn the veil of Ignorance from the face of Thought.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2603-2617
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks that old friends, bitter experience, an envenomed
cup, a sweeter draught, wine-drinking companions, and dead loyal lovers not be
forgotten.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2619-2625
quote_or_summary: The speaker returns to bonds, remembers hands that broke a poor
slave’s chain, weeps, and thinks of rose gardens beside the Zindeh Rud, forgetting
life’s misery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2627-2634
quote_or_summary: Sorrow has made a lair in the speaker’s breast; the speaker says
to lock the gates of the sad heart but not to forget those who held the key to
unspoken woes.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied public-domain English passage. Motif
assignments are cautious because the material is lyric and symbolic rather than
a continuous mythic narrative.
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 external sources were used. Comparison claims are limited to the passage’s explicit Adamic allusion.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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