This book takes a systematic approach to analyzing a poem, which is Hafez's expression of grief made against his passionate heart. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by a contemporary scholar admirer, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction--or reintroduction--to Hafez. This book's approach is a quantitative and qualitative analyses of the poem as well as the relative analysis of it with respect to the entire poetry of Hafez. The outcome revealed the effect of the poem on evolving the passion to love and diverting it from personal to...