Bahar Man Sar Az Naw

Bahar Man Sar Az Naw addresses the beloved as 'my spring' (bahar-e man) — a personification that makes the beloved a season, a force of renewal, capable of either arriving and transforming the landscape or withholding itself and leaving winter in place. The question 'how long will you flee from the new spring?' is therefore also: how long will you refuse to become what you are?

'In this silence of lips your gaze has a hundred tongues' — the beloved does not speak but the eyes communicate volumes. The contrast between the silent lips and the eloquent gaze is precise: the beloved refuses verbal communication while the body continues to broadcast. The speaker is being given information through a channel the beloved may not have intended to open.

The final couplet's complaint is subtle: 'When you look at me with coldness and flee from me / How long will you treat the wild breeze and the gentle dew alike?' The wild breeze (bad-e saba) and the gentle dew are opposites in Persian lyric — the wind that carries messages and the moisture that nourishes. To treat them alike is to make no distinctions, to have no preferences. The speaker is being told, by the beloved's equal treatment of all things, that they are nothing special.