Rumi

The Springtime

The Springtime - meaning Summary

Transformative Power of Love

Rumi’s poem presents love as a transformative, spiritual force that changes the world and the self. Spring arrival turns a dust bowl into a garden and base matter into precious things; the soul rises, the body becomes spirit. The poem contrasts lovers and intellectuals: thinkers avoid surrender while lovers willingly ‘drown’ in passion, becoming solitary yet magnetically attractive. Love is both intoxicating and sheltering, likened to musk and a tree.

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The springtime of Lovers has come, that this dust bowl may become a garden; the proclamation of heaven has come, that the bird of the soul may rise in flight. The sea becomes full of pearls, the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar, the stone becomes a ruby from the mine, the body becomes wholly soul. The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He’s mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

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