Persian excellence in Persian poetry is all inclusive: its historicity and nature, its wisdom and wit, its tradition and experiment, its love and lore, its idiom and ethos are all there. Read from Shahnama to Iqbal, the poet of the East, or even modern poetry in modernized diction, you will find treasures upon treasures measuring the development of man in its subtle form. No doubt the soil of the country is not an ordinary one , but its people have poured their blood in art of which Persian poetry is a significant specimen.The lyres and he tambourine, the flute and the drum played by hands well cultured into the art of music add to the rhyme and rhythm Persian poetry is famous for. Listen to the flute, as Rumi says , the whole story of love and pain is there and also the marveling beauty of narration! Go into its depths , you will find myth and majesty blended together to give it a name known for its erudition and fluency! One must have an ear to listen to its sound and warbling musicality!
Persian poetry, spread far and wide, loaded with all kinds of values necessary for the most successful life on the earth, made its mark in each epoch.. Morality, social harmony, cohesion between various kinds of people , political ethics and spirituality were the main themes it bore in its well designed forms. Besides that art and artistic excellence received impetus by it and the Persian verse on lips of knowledgeable persons and singers added to its hedonistic value. Its beauty could easily be matched with Arabic and Sanskrit literature which were also in full swing. In the West especially Germans adopted Persian forms and people like Goethe and Herder felicitated Persian wisdom and art. Orientalists in England and France promoted western interest in Persian culture by translating Persian verse! Marshall Hodgson says if Islam loses everything, only Persian poetry has the strength to still keep it alive!
Contributed By:
Prof Syed Habib
Prof of Education
email:habib.zabarwan@gmail.com
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