Bobur and the ghazal “Xazon yaprog‘i yanglig‘…”

In the ghazal the lyric hero says that in separation from his beloved he has turned yellow like an autumn leaf; so images linked with the colour yellow – xazon, sarg‘ardim, chehrayi zardim – dominate from the first couplet. In contrast, the beloved is called “rose-faced” and “tulip-cheeked,” and in the second couplet she is likened to a cypress, but the poet stresses the cypress’s “sarkash” (defiant) nature, bringing novelty to a traditional image. In the third couplet the leaf alludes to human life being torn from the garden of the world; in the fourth, tears and face are likened to the leaf, and a tone of escaping the people’s dislike is felt. In the fifth couplet the search for the star of fortune among the pages of a notebook is expressed, and in the maqta‘ indifference to the people’s praise or blame. The textbook names tanosub, the harmony of images connected with autumn and the fallen leaf, as the poem’s chief device.