Beauty and Love
Beauty and Love - meaning Summary
Beauty and Love as Unity
In this poem Rumi presents beauty as a primal, self-revealing reality: she both knows and is known, seer and seen. The world and its particulars—trees, roses, time and space—are cast as expressions of that single beauty. Love appears as the animating, inseparable companion that lights and sustains beauty, like soul to body or diamond to mine. The poem asserts an essential unity between Beauty and Love that underlies creation, offering a mystical vision of divine interdependence rather than a purely human or sentimental pairing.
Read Complete AnalysesAll through eternity beauty unveils her exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness; She holds a mirror to her face and beholds her own beauty. She is the knower and the known, the seer and the seen; No eye but hers own has ever looked upon this Universe. Hers every quality finds an expression: Eternity becomes the verdant field of time and space; Love, the life-giving garden of this world. Every branch and leaf and fruit reveals an aspect of her perfection - they cypress give hint of her majesty, the rose gives tidings of her beauty. Whenever beauty looks, love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek love lights her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond. They have together since the beginning of time - side by side, step by step.
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