Description of the term "Shah Rokh"(Castling) in a verse by Hafez Review

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Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran

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Description of the term "Shah Rokh"(Castling) in a verse by Hafez



The Description of the Castling of the Rook in a Line of Hafez



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Hafez is one of the most famous poets of the Iraqi Style, who used the concepts in different disciplines and the common games like backgammon and chess in his poetry in the most appropriate form. His use of the aforementioned disciplines and games is never artificial and does not hamper the eloquent and delicate face of his poems. In some of his lines, he used chess and castling of the rook; to understand such poetic delicacies, we have to understand the meaning of such concepts and expressions or moves in games. In some cases, the interpreters of Hafez have not been able to make a sound interpretation of such expressions and moves in chess in the concerned poetic lines. This paper has described such concepts, using a descriptive-analytic method. The castling of the rook or bringing the king to the rook is made once to make the king safe. Unfortunately, this concept has been interpreted in a wrong way based on the literal meaning of the concept in the dictionaries.

Keywords: Hafez's poetry; Castling; King; Rook; Chess

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