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The first idea (verses 1-4): exile, its motive and its results

The first idea (verses 1-4): exile, its motive and its results

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06The first idea (verses 1-4): exile, its motive and its results

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  • He says he lingered at the pretext of hopes, idling away with wishes; they said: "a place of exile will be my cure".
  • He asks in indignant interrogation: "does the sweetness of its air soften fires?" — and so distinguishes the healing of the body from the healing of the soul.
  • The air of Alexandria may heal the body, but he doubts that it heals the fires of the heart.
  • He describes his circling through the lands as futile, and as "a sickness upon a sickness": he adds the malady of exile to the malady of separation.
  • Then he describes his solitude by repetition: alone in my yearning, alone in my gloom, alone in my toil.

The three-stage ladder

  • The cause: love (yearning, sabbabah).
  • The effect: gloom (ka'abah).
  • The result: toil and exhaustion (ana).

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