But slowly the separate poetic strings are becoming tied to each other, as if it was a game. …he sang to the sound of the Iraqi cither, no he was singing to the heat of the vine.Īt this point the visions are still divided according to their concrete value. The wish for a symbolic mix-up becomes evident in the beginning: Secondly, the characters are moving around themselves in circles. Through the sudden impact of the image we can also feel a higher spiritual movement, which is pointed to by the “host coming in from the darkness”. Vividly and dramatically he suddenly steps in. ![]() In front of him the host is standing with a jug, which is filled with the wine of heavenly love and highest spirituality. But much more important is the adequacy of the lyrical milieu and its people in both poems. ![]() The Persian poem has caesuras, thus its overall structure seems more metrical. The poem has been extended in its length in the German translation from eighteen to twenty seven verses. Since we already have certain knowledge of Rumi’s literature, we can start giving some samples of Rumi’s poetry.īut then I saw my dearest friend, how he was walking around the house, lifting his zither… In the end we should have a complete picture of the literary Rumi. If we could derive a common style from them that describes Rumi’s principle of mystical-lyric form, we could approach a comparison with his didactic poem. It is impossible to talk about the whole Divan, thus we will only look at some selected poems. Richter compares Rumi’s poetry with that of the German Romantic poets, in order to examine whether classical and Romantic poetry is able to accommodate the spiritual dimensions of the Divan.Īfter we have tried to understand Rumi’s didactic poem, it should not be difficult to find the right stylistic measures for an evaluation of his Divan, too. Despite the song going by that name, its words molly and Percocet often get censored on mainstream radio or TV, including Future’s performance of it with Kendrick Lamar at the 2017 BET Awards.This is Gustav Richter’s third lecture on Rumi’s poetry, in which, in language clearly inspired by Rumi himself, Richter analyses the structural and metaphysical aspects of the Divan, as well as the many layers of meaning contained within the imagery. Thanks to the lyrics, many people came to call the song which reached #5 on the Billboard charts, Molly Percocets or just Molly Percocet. The song is about his rise from poverty to success-and, apparently, use of recreational drugs, as its hook goes to “Percocets, molly, Percocets / Percocets, molly, Percocets.” ![]() In April, 2017, Atlanta-based rapper Future released his now-platinum single “Mask Off,” which inspired a viral internet video trend, the Mask Off Challenge. ![]() It’s exactly what the doctor didn’t order. Very dangerously, people like to mix molly and Percocet, the latter drug easing the pain of coming down from the former. The highly addictive Percocet, meanwhile, is a prescription brand of a drug combining oxycodone (hydrochloride) and acetaminophen, two common types of pain-relievers. MDMA is better known as ecstasy, a euphoria-inducing drug first made in the early 1900s. While molly has been a slang word for “drugs” since the 1970s, it referred to the illegal drug MDMA at least by the 2010s, apparently as a shortening of molecule.
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