Hafiz

Hafiz was a poet whose writing was very abstract and imaginative. His poems were written to show people the beauty in everyday things and get them to use their own imagination. His poems can give the reader a sense of peace if they take time to contemplate what he is trying to say. They were an escape for young people and older people alike from the rush and stress of everyday life. In his poem All the Hemispheres, he says: “Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms … All the hemispheres in heaven Are sitting around a fire Chatting

While stitching themselves together Into the Great Circle inside of You (Astro 1). This poem gets the reader thinking about what it would be like if they could step out of their body and meet themselves while giving the reader a feeling of purpose by saying that there is a higher purpose that is stitching them together. This poem, along with many others, gets the reader to think while giving them hope. He might not have become the most famous poet because he did not write that many poems and many of the ones he did write were very short. However, his poems still have the same affect on those who read them today as they once did; a calm and peaceful escape from the real world.

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