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Poetry | Hafez's barafshān, Part 4

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this discussion on Hafez's barafshān, we go over the fifth and sixth line of the poem.

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0:00.0

Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation.

0:03.2

Hafez's poem,

0:34.2

Barafshan.

0:35.6

As always, let's listen to my Khalifana's

0:37.7

recite the whole poem up to the lines

0:40.2

will be learning in this lesson.

0:41.9

Maudaam ma's ma'am Jad de Gisouyat.

0:47.7

Kharabam me conadham

0:48.9

Fariby be chasm of jadu yet.

0:53.8

Pas as chanin shakibai, Shabhi, Yorab, Tavan d'havroi'i'am Died of Fruzine in mehrabe Abruyat. All right, and those first four lines were from the previous weeks, and hopefully you understood those first four lines. Now let's listen again to the lines

1:11.8

we will be covering in today's lesson.

1:13.5

So, if you're going to javidon, jahan yikser, bian yiksa, bian, great. So again, that first line is,

1:27.8

To garrhahe, ke Javidan jihon yiksaar piroi.

1:33.8

First, to is the first person informal word for you. So it's the version of you you use if you know

1:41.1

someone well. They're your peer or friend or someone you're familiar with.

1:45.7

To. And then, gharhahi. Gar is a short version of the word agar, which means if. Agar. So in this poem,

1:58.5

because of the rhyme structure, it's shortened to ghar.

2:02.1

Gair.

2:03.9

So in Persian poetry, you really have a lot of leeway to do something like that,

2:08.3

to shorten a word and make it work in the structure of the sentence.

2:12.0

So then, kohi means you want.

2:14.8

So it's the informal you conjugation of to want hae he so we've gone

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