Humalit A56 Rumi Reflection.docx

Humalit A56

September 29, 17

Noah Sison (11609168) Rumi Reflection Paper Rumi is a poet whose poems are one of compassion, kindness, piety, faith, spiritual insight and enlightened living. Each poem he wrote was dedicated to his lover, Sham, showing how much of an influence another individual can be. The poems he wrote focused on the beauties, longings and joys of the human heart. Love was the most important thing to Rumi with reason and faith being secondary to him. In most of his poems Rumi is usually compared to weak and fragile items as compared to Sham who is seen as strong and hard. One example of such is in the poem “Granite and wineglass”, where Rumi is the wineglass and Sham is granite. Rumi believes that all types of love are one and the same, whether it would be divine or not divine. Being a hermit himself Rumi kept to his religion and its practices, performing all the rituals yet was not officious or dogmatic about it. Rumi was seeking for the balance between the two instead of keeping love and religion away from each other as society did during his era. One example of such is in his poem titled “Like This” it is seen how he mix and matches both concepts together. We are invited by Rumi to go beyond what we know and express such ideas even further than what they are. To show how one value or trait can be the center of our expressions, in Rumi’s case being love. As seen in another poem “I saw you last night in the gathering.” Where something so short can have so much meaning. It was only around four to five stanzas but Rumi’s message and underlying messages were all expressed and sent to both the reader and his lover Sham.