batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2712-l2757
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg-l2712-l2757
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
passage_locator:
label: XXXIV / XXXVI / XXXVII / XXXVIII; lines 2712-2757
start: '2712'
end: '2757'
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: When I am dead, open my grave and see / The cloud of smoke that rises round
thy feet
summary: A lyric speaker declares unceasing desire for the Beloved, imagines dying
at her threshold, describes love as fire that continues after death, and asks
the Beloved to reveal her face and comfort the distressed world. Her coming transforms
winter and thorns into flowering abundance, while her hair wounds the speaker’s
heart.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The speaker says desire will not cease until it is satisfied or until his
soul expires.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says he has laid his head on the Beloved’s threshold and imagines
dust covering him there after life and love have fled from his body.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker says his soul is on his lips ready to fly, while grief remains
in his heart.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker describes the Beloved’s red mouth as burning his thoughts like
fire.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker asks that his grave be opened after death, saying smoke will rise
and fire will still burn in his dead heart and winding-sheet.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says the Beloved’s coming makes meadows wait, thorns bear flowers,
the cypress bear fruit, and winter flee.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: The western wind is described as passing through meadows and gardens seeking
a red rose like the Beloved’s cheek.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: The speaker calls on the Beloved to reveal her face so that the whole world
may be bewildered by her loveliness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The cry of man and woman comes to the Beloved, and the speaker asks her to
open her lips and comfort their distress.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: The Beloved’s curling hair is described as barbed hooks that catch the speaker’s
heart and leave it wounded with red drops.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker says Hafiz’s name will be praised and mourned among sad lovers
who tell their sighs.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: lyric speaker / Hafiz
description: The first-person speaker who desires the Beloved, imagines dying at
her threshold, and identifies Hafiz’s name with sad lovers.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:11
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Beloved
description: The addressed figure with red mouth, sweet lips, radiant face, soft
cheek, and curling hair; her coming transforms the landscape and her lips are
asked to comfort distress.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: western wind
description: A personified wind that blows through meadows and gardens while seeking
a red rose like the Beloved’s cheek.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: man and woman
description: A collective human group whose cry comes to the Beloved in distress.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: sad lovers
description: Lovers who meet, tell their sighs, and remember Hafiz’s name with praise
and tears.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
roles:
- id: role:1
label: desiring lover
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker declares unceasing desire, grief, longing for the Beloved’s lips,
and willingness to die at her threshold.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:2
label: beloved source of beauty and comfort
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The Beloved’s mouth, face, cheek, and hair are described as objects of longing;
her lips are asked to comfort distress, and her coming changes the landscape.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: role:3
label: seeker of likeness to the Beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The western wind searches meadows and gardens for a red rose like the Beloved’s
cheek.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: distressed humanity
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The cry of man and woman comes to the Beloved, and the speaker asks her to
comfort their distress.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:5
label: community of sorrowing lovers
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Sad lovers meet to tell their sighs and remember Hafiz with praise and tears.
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: red mouth and sweet lips
literal_form: The Beloved’s red mouth and lips
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:9
- id: sym:2
label: threshold
literal_form: The Beloved’s threshold where the speaker lays his head and imagines
dying
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: grave smoke and heart-fire
literal_form: Smoke rising from the grave and fire burning in the dead heart and
winding-sheet
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:4
label: flowering landscape
literal_form: Meadows, thorns bearing flowers, fruiting cypress, and winter fleeing
before the Beloved
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: red rose
literal_form: A red rose sought in gardens as comparable to the Beloved’s cheek
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:6
label: radiant face
literal_form: The Beloved’s revealed face and radiant loveliness
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:7
label: barbed curls and wounded heart
literal_form: Curling hair as barbed hooks catching and wounding the speaker’s heart
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Unceasing desire and imagined death at the threshold
summary: The speaker states that desire will not cease until satisfied or ended
by death, and imagines remaining at the Beloved’s threshold after life has left
his body.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Love-fire continuing after death
summary: The speaker imagines his grave opened after death and says smoke and fire
will still rise from his dead heart and winding-sheet.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: Beloved’s arrival renews the landscape
summary: The Beloved’s coming is described as causing meadows to wait, thorns to
flower, the cypress to bear fruit, and winter to flee.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:4
label: Wind seeking the rose-like cheek
summary: The western wind moves through meadows and gardens hoping to find a red
rose like the Beloved’s cheek.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:5
label: Revelation and comfort requested from the Beloved
summary: The speaker asks the Beloved to reveal her face, bewilder the world with
loveliness, and comfort the distress of man and woman.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: scene:6
label: Hair hooks and the wounded lover
summary: The Beloved’s curling hair catches the speaker’s heart like hooks, and
the wounded heart bleeds.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:7
label: Hafiz remembered among sad lovers
summary: The speaker says Hafiz’s name will be praised and mourned when sad lovers
gather and recount their sighs.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:5
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: longing for the divine beloved
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The poem addresses an exalted Beloved whose lips, face, cheek, and hair become
the focus of longing and whose revelation can comfort human distress.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage itself says only “Beloved” and uses lyric love language; identification
as divine or mystical depends on genre context supplied by the source metadata.
- id: motif:2
label: love as fire persisting beyond death
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker imagines death, a grave, smoke, and a fire still burning in the
dead heart because of love for the Beloved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage clearly links love, death, and fire, but it does not explicitly
describe completed union or doctrinal annihilation.
- id: motif:3
label: beloved’s arrival as seasonal renewal
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: The Beloved’s coming is associated with thorns flowering, cypress fruiting,
and winter fleeing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: The renewal is expressed as lyric transformation rather than as a full
seasonal mythic narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: questing search for the beloved’s likeness
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The western wind searches gardens and meadows for a red rose like the Beloved’s
cheek, paralleling the speaker’s desire and longing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The search is brief and personified within lyric imagery; it is not a
developed quest plot.
- id: motif:5
label: wounded heart of the lover
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Beloved’s curls are barbed hooks that catch and wound the speaker’s heart,
causing red drops to start.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches this image.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 2714-2717
quote_or_summary: "“I cease not from desire till my desire / Is satisfied”; the
speaker seeks the Beloved’s red mouth or the expiration of his soul."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 2718-2721
quote_or_summary: The speaker says others may love elsewhere, but he has laid his
head on the Beloved’s threshold and will remain there under dust after life and
love have fled.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 2722-2725
quote_or_summary: The speaker says his soul is ready to fly from his lips, but grief
beats in his heart because the Beloved’s lips will not give peace before he dies.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 2726-2729
quote_or_summary: The speaker longs for “a red mouth that burns my thoughts like
fire.”
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 2730-2733
quote_or_summary: "“When I am dead, open my grave”; smoke rises, and fire still
burns in the speaker’s dead heart and winding-sheet."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 2734-2737
quote_or_summary: The speaker calls the Beloved to come; meadows wait, thorns bear
flowers, the cypress bears fruit, and winter flees before her steps.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 2738-2741
quote_or_summary: The western wind blows through meadows and gardens hoping to find
a red rose soft and sweet like the Beloved’s cheek.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 2742-2744
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks the Beloved to reveal her face so that the whole
world may be bewildered by her radiant loveliness.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: lines 2744-2745
quote_or_summary: The cry of man and woman comes to the Beloved, and the speaker
asks her to open her lips and comfort their distress.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: lines 2746-2749
quote_or_summary: Each curl of the Beloved’s hair becomes a barbed hook that catches
the speaker’s heart, leaving it wounded with red drops.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: lines 2750-2753
quote_or_summary: When sad lovers meet and tell their sighs, Hafiz’s name will be
spoken with praise and tears among companies where joy and hope have fled.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/poems-from-divan-of-hafiz-bell.md
rights_note: Public domain source.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is based directly on the supplied passage. Motif assignment
is cautious because the poem’s Sufi framing is supplied by metadata, while the
passage itself uses lyric beloved imagery. No comparison claims are made because
the passage does not itself establish a comparison to another text or tradition.
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: |-
Only the provided passage and metadata were used. The supplied line range contains the poem headed XXXVIII in the provided text.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-hafiz-divan-bell-gutenberg__l2712-l2757
passage_sha256=78ce3820bc924e24e664b4afff8662f3fa31d20711ff062d98195ab8c164c081