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Ghazal Mimi Khalvati

To

discuss the imagery and structure of the poem.

To learn

the meaning of a

Ghazal. Slide2

GhazalIn Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music, a poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love

.

A Middle Eastern or Indian SonnetSlide3

GhazalIf I am the grass and you the breeze, blow through me.If I am the rose and you the bird, then woo me.

If you are the rhyme and I the refrain, don’t hang

on my lips, come and I’ll come too when you cue me.

If yours is the iron fist in the velvet glove

when the arrow flies, the heart is pierced, tattoo me.

If mine is the venomous tongue, the serpent’s tail,

charmer, use your charm, weave a spell and subdue me.If I am the laurel leaf in your crown, you arethe arms around my bark, arms that never knew me.

Oh would that I were bark! So old and still in leaf.And you, dropping in my shade, dew to bedew me!What shape should I take to marry your own, have you– hawk to my shadow, moth to my flame – pursue me?If I rise in the east as you die in the west,die for my sake, my love, every night renew me.If, when it ends, we are just good friends, be my Friend,muse, lover and guide, Shamsuddin to my Rumi.Be heaven and earth to me and I’ll be twice the meI am, if only half the world you are to me

Annotate the rhyme scheme of the poemHighlight any references to natural imagery Highlight Metaphors, Anaphora and repetition

Rumi

: 13

th

Century Persian Poet famous for writing

ghazals

Shamsuddin

:

his friendSlide4

Rhyme SchemeIf

I am

the grass and you the breeze, blow

through

me

.If I am the rose and you the bird, then woo me.If you are the rhyme and I the refrain, don’t hangon my lips, come and I’ll come too when you cue

me.If yours is the iron fist in the velvet glovewhen the arrow flies, the heart is pierced, tattoo me.If mine is the venomous tongue, the serpent’s tail,charmer, use your charm, weave a spell and subdue me.If I am

the laurel leaf in your crown, you arethe arms around my bark, arms that never knew me.Oh would that I were bark! So old and still in leaf.

And you, dropping in my shade,

dew

to bedew me!What shape should I take to marry your own, have you– hawk to my shadow, moth to my flame – pursue me?If I rise in the east as you die in the west,die for my sake, my love, every night renew me.If, when it ends, we are just good friends, be my Friend,muse, lover and guide, Shamsuddin to my Rumi.Be heaven and earth to me and I’ll be twice the meI am, if only half the world you are to me.

Why did

Khlavati

choose

to structure her poem in

couplets

?

What

effect does the

rhyme scheme

have?

What

effect does the

repetition

have? Slide5

ImageryFind a line that expresses the beauty of love and analyse its language

Find a line that shows the pain love can cause and analyse

its language

Why does the

poet

use an excess of natural

imagery (nature, animals, etc)? Overall, is this a positive or negative poem?Which poems could be compared to this one?Slide6

How does Kahlvati use imagery and/or structure to show the relationship in her poem?

A

point

, including the name of the poet, the title of the poem, the technique used

and its purpose

At

least one piece of evidence that is supporting the pointAn explanation of the figurative and literal meaning of the evidenceAn explanation of how the evidence proves the pointAn analysis of the language used, including the connotations of keywordsAn analysis of the technique used, including the effect of the techniqueAn analysis of the poet’s intentions, including their effect on the reader