Hafiz's Poetry under the Light of Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics; An Ontological Reflection

Despite the fact that in Gadamer’s view, a work of art, in general, is considered as an “event of truth”, it is specifically the poetry that is regarded as a paradigm of the text. This is due to the relationship between poetic thinking and world wisdom rather than owing to linguistic formal characteristics of poetry.
The focus in this paper is on ontological traits of poetry like autonomy, uniqueness, continuity, tone, and resonance to explain the correspondence between the “truth” and poetry. Through a hermeneutical reflection on Hafiz, the paper aims to show the capability of Hafiz’s poetry to possess traits mentioned above; Ensuing Gadamerian reasons could be counted for this idea, including classicality, intertextuality, and therefore, constructive function in Persian tradition, “loud voice” till “here” and “now”, and finally Hafiz’s dialogical essence.
In this paper, we examined the possibility of understanding Hafiz's poetry using Gadamer's dialectic, followed by showing how 'existence', as is meant by Gadamer, is 'unfolded' in Hafiz's poetry.