At the end of a poem of this type, the poet acknowledges that the universe has rewarded him for his craft with a "marriage to the Pleiades."
At the end of a poem of this type, the poet acknowledges that the universe has rewarded him for his craft with a "marriage to the Pleiades." Poems of this type about "of the terrible presence," "of the unforeseen love," "of the dark death," and "of the dead child" were penned by Garcia Lorca. In his collections Ravishing Disunities and Call Me Ishmael Tonight, Kashmiri-born poet Agha Shahid Ali popularized this form among English-speaking poets. Traditionally, these poems range from five to fifteen strictly rhyming couplets, the last of which obliquely mentions the author. This form evolved from the panegyric qasida in (*) eighth century Arabia. The preeminent author of these poems is buried in an oft-visited tomb in Shiraz, and adopted a pen name referring to his ability to recite Quran by heart. Hafez predominantly wrote in, for 10 points, what omnipresent form in Indian, Arabic, and Persian poetry and music?
At the end of a poem of this type, the poet acknowledges that the universe has rewarded him for his craft with a "marriage to the Pleiades."
ghazals [or gacelas; accept answers that have the same consonants, but drop the vowels]