Themes

All poems in A New Divan respond to the 12 themes found in Goethe’s original West-Eastern Divan.

These are:

  • The Poet
  • Hafiz
  • Love
  • Reflections
  • Ill-Humour
  • Wisdom
  • The Tyrant
  • Suleika
  • The Cup-Bearer
  • Parables
  • Faith
  • Paradise