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the stanza reverses the image of the "dark, tumultuous stream" in the
first line. Both images are happily juxtaposed to universalize the
unrealizability of a care-free life. Even if a care-free life ever
existed at all it would exist only in the poet's imagination. The
translator's limpid bowl bears a striking resemblance to Keats's
Grecian urn. The text's obligatory meaning is skillfully blended in an
intricate web of extended and accessory meanings.
In the third line, the Arabian poet expresses a universal concept
with exquisite brevity that invites appreciation and admiration. The
structuring of the line and the internal organization of the lexical
and grammatical micro-structures which constitute the macro-context of
the line are skillfully complemented to crystallize the solid semantic
substance. The meaning of the line can be boiled down to this: that he
who tries to divert the stream of days against its predestined course
is like one who requires a blazing fire to subsist under the water.
The conjunction 'and' which occurs at the beginning of the line links
it to the preceding lines and add7 11,== dimension to the poetic
image. The words 'mukallif' and ', both verbal nouns, are
juxtaposed to heighten the dramatic effect of the simile and achieve
grammatical and lexical equilibrium within the line. The first half of
the line is predicated to the second, thus constituting a unity of
grammatical relations, focal to the explication of the ideational
substance of the text.
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