Intertextual Relationship between Hafiz and Roozbahan Baghli's Works

Julia Kristeva believes that intertextuality is passing from one semiotic system to another. From this angle, text is not just a compendium of constant meanings, but intertwined with a complex interaction amongst various texts and reveals its meaning through its relationship with other texts. This paper strives to expand on the relationship and interactions of Hafiz and Roozbahan to draw a comparison based on their concept of love and the beloved’s image. The images and actions presented of the beloved, sway the line between catharsis and simile. On the other hand, the actions of the beloved and his/her treatment of the lover follow two distinct patterns of love which have been the focal point for both poets: The Story of Mansour Hallaj and that of Sheikh San’an. The place of the beloved’s (God’s) manifestation is the world of imagination in step with olfactory, visual and kinesthetic feelings of the time of the events. In this paper, we have also focused on the semiotic systems and the change of the lingual implications in a complex network of textual relationships of Hafiz’s poems and the traditions of the Persian sonnet in the visualization of the beloved.