Analysis of an Oriental Poem - Nature - Essay Example

Some Persian Mathnawi styles are especially present in Sufism; Rumi’s Mathnawi-i-Ma’nawi is a model example.The poem is replete with Orientalist sentiment and oriental style. From the choice of theme to the language, and the meter (Duple) to the rhythm of a Couplet the composition represent an Oriental thinking and presentation. The characteristics of the poem resemble oriental traits.The poem talks about the cycle of life and death and its harmony with nature. It centers on the birth and growth of a tree and the various phases it passes through all influence by the symbiosis of nature and its creations.

The synergy between different creations and within nature as a whole is represented through the narration of the process of creation of a new plant life. A combination of natural agents of fertilization like bees, birds, and butterflies; wind and breeze contributing to the creation of a new life is beautifully depicted in this poem in the third and fourth couplet. (The Poet’s Garret 1)The natural tendency of every form of life to grow, develop, procreate and spread its species around within its habit and in the place that it thrives is also expressed in the first two couplets.

The couplet, “Richly blossoming forth its symbolic scenes, that helps to procreate and pass on its genes” talks about the instinct of the creature to grow and present its most beautiful, dominant and powerful form for survival, lineage, and succession. Every creation in nature has the urge to develop and evolve into its most perfect, beautiful and strongest version, eventually breeding and multiplying into many similar individuals.The cycle of beginning and end and of birth and death are brought out in the fifth and sixth couplet where the poet-writer about the beginning of every New Year, marking the end of the previous one.

This is expressed as “one year’s loss is another's gain”.