Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry pdf download

A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry

Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry

Persian poetry, according to Schimmel, does not strive to be spontaneous in spirit or extremely personal in form. 

Instead, it is based on prosody, rhymes, and verbal orchestration standards and rules.

 Every verse should, in theory, be like a valuable stone, precisely formed and multifaceted, conveying the dynamic link between ordinary reality and the transcendent. According to Schimmel, Persian poetry is more akin to medieval European verse than Western poetry developed since the Romantic period. 

The ghazal, a group of rhyming couplets, is the most common poetic form, and it’s used to hide the poet’s true objectives behind customary cliches.

Persian poetry’s strength comes from its “architectonic” design, in which each perfectly stated picture is meticulously fitted into a pattern of linked figures of speech. 

Schimmel demonstrates how Persian poetry, at its core, transforms the world into a labyrinth of symbols rooted in Islamic culture.