Musical Terms Ambiguity Techniques in Assar-e-Tabrizi in Comparison with Nezami and Hafiz

Musical Terms Ambiguity Techniques in Assar-e-Tabrizi in Comparison with Nezami andHafizAbstractBeing correlatives, poetry and music have always had an ancient affinity standing the question of time, even though over the course of centuries each has evolved into an independent field. In some poets, ambiguity stands out as a literary device and due to the use of ambiguous words and sentences attracts the special attention of many others to the point of dictating itself as a signature feature of style, and still more so when it blends with music to take the reader by wonder and surprise. Assar-e-Tabrizi is a poet, beside a few others, to have achieved perfection in using the technique. In this study, all the lines in Assar's couplet, The Sun and Jupiter(Mehr Va Moshtari) and the poems of Khosrow and Shirin composed by Nezami, were carefully examined in search of instances of musical ambiguity to be compared and contrasted with the sonnets by Hafiz, that is the three poets were contrasted. Findings show that Assar and Hafiz have a lot in common when it comes to musical ambiguity, with Assar making a few innovative moves absent in Hafiz, the term "Shahnaz" being one such move. In fact, the claim can be legitimately made that concerning ambiguity and in particular, musical ambiguity, Assar is as great and distinguished a poet as Hafiz and he has used these literary items more than Nezami.Keywords: ambiguity, Assar, Hafez, musical terms, Nezami