Faiz Poem

The poem “Do Not Ask from Me, My Beloved, Love like that Former One” by Faiz the Lover or the devotee is declaring love to its beloved. As mentioned in class today by the professor the gender is ambiguous in some way between the beloved and the lover. The main tension seems to be a conflict battling itself out between a conception of love that is subjective and something much more worthy, not just interior, concerned with emotion but rather with the external work . It shows a conflict between interior world and exterior world, he loves this person, however we see concern with something that is greater than the love the poem expresses. He recognizes that there are other problems in the world besides suffering for love, as well as other pleasures. He shows an internal conflict within the lover and the external conflict of the world.