چکیده:
Hafez Shirazi was a distinguished Persian poet. His poetry collection, Divan, is
regarded as a literary work of profound significance. Iranians view this collection as
something much more than poetry because it is also used for bibliomantic purposes.
After studying Hafez in his social context and exploring distinctive qualities of his
Divan, particularly its application as a divination tool, the present article largely
aims to determine what type of reader the querent who uses Hafezs Divan is. The
answer to this question has led to the introduction of a novel reader construct in the
realm of reader-oriented theories. Divining reader is the term I use to refer to the
reader who consults Hafezs poetry collection as a bibliomantic text so as to solve a
problem or find an answer to a question. The divining reader has eighteen
identifying characteristics, one of which is the willing unframing of disbelief,
referring to the fact that the reader first unframes whatever disbelieving and then
reframes the unframed disbelief into a belief.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Divining Reader: A Construct Based on the Bibliomantic Approach to Hafez¶s Divan Mehdi Aghamohammadi, MA in English Language and Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran Email: mrmehdi.
After studying Hafez in his social context and exploring distinctive qualities of his Divan, particularly its application as a divination tool, the present article largely aims to determine what type of reader the querent who uses Hafez¶s Divan is.
Whenever I saw a person use Hafez¶s poetry collection to practice divination and read it for foretelling the future by interpreting random lines, I always wondered what type of reader that querent was.
It must be mentioned that, despite a variety of poetic forms he utilized, Hafez is considered to be ³by universal consent the supreme master of the art of the Persian ghazal a literary form generally equated with the lyric; 120 The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2019, pp.
In my opinion, these conditions contributed to not only the fragmentation of Hafez¶s poetry but also the diversity of voices in it; however, according to the above-mentioned points, his ghazals comprise some features which attempt to maintain their unity, including a clear form and structure into which so many subjects, images, ideas, and symbols are compressed; rhythmic unity; insistence on the fact that it was Hafez who created them by using his pen name (and the inclusion of all other voices under the umbrella of his own voice); and the establishment of a link between beyts by using rhymes.