2.MOJ SEVOM/THIRD WAVE IN CONTEPORARY PERSIAN POETRY

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2.MOJ SEVOM DAR SHER EMRUZ IRAN

THIRD WAVE IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY

(excerpt&adapted)

موج سوم در شعر امروز ایران 

life is short

art is long

opportunity fleeting

experimenting dangerous

reasoning difficult

-HIPPOCRATES

A THIRD WAVE HAS STARTED IN COTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY.

the poets who are children of revolution and war are rflecting their experiences in their words and their songs.

POETS OF THIRD WAVE/MOJ SEVOM ARE POETS OF MOMENTS OR THE SHORT TIME AND SPACES BETWEEN MOMENTS.THE TIME IS NOT THAT LONG TO LOOK AT THIS VAST LANDSCAPE FROM UP ABOVE AND SIT AND STARE LONG.FOR ,THE WAVES ARRIVE AND WASH YOU OFF SO YOUR SCREAMS WILL BE SILENT FOREVER.

THESE POETS ARE SEARCHING THE NOVELTY OF LIFE AND THE PAINS AND SORROWS OVERLOADING IT IN OUR TIME AND ERA.

THESE POETS EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN SHORT PHRASES AND LIMITED WORDS.

BUT THEY LIVE IN A GRAND LANDSCAPE  OF LANGUAGE,WHERE THEY FLY HIGH.

THE POETS OF MOJ SEVOM/THIRD WAVE ARE REVOLUTIONARIES.

THEIR POETRY STARTED FROM CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLTION OF IRAN WITHIN A CENTURY AGO AND POETRY OF PRE-NIMAI PERIOD.

AT THAT TIME THE POETS STARTED THEIR NEW POETRY WITH A NEW LANGUAGE IN CLASSICAL FORMS OF RHYMES AND RYTHMS BUT WITH A STRONGER SOCIAL ACCENT.

THEN NIMA YUSHIJ,THE FATHER AND FOUNDER OF MODERN PERSIAN POETRY ARRIVED .THE VISIONARY POET APPRECIATED THE MOMENT OF MOVEMENT.HE MATERIALIZED THE MOMENT OF MOVEMENT AS A WAVE.AND DURING THIS PERIOD OF AWAKENING DISRUPTED THE OLD CONTRACTS .HE THEORIZED MODERN PERSIAN POETRY SINGLE HANDEDLY.THE POETRY OF NIMA,THE POETRY OF NIMAI AND THE POETRY OF POST NIMAI ,ALL STARTED FROM THIS MOMENT ON,WITH HIS NAME.

YEARS LATER,REVOLUTION OF PEOPLE AND WAR BETWEEN IRAN AND IRAQ BROUGHT ABOUT A NEW VISION AND THE THIRD WAVE BEGAN.

POETS IN A NEW ERA STARTED LOOKING AT THE WORLD WITH WITNESSING AND INTELLECTS. HISTORY WAS REWRITTEN AND REREAD BY A NEW GENERATION.WITH THE PEOPLE ON POETS AND WRITERS SIDE.THERE WERE MORE BRIDGES BUILT TO THE POETRY AND CULTURE OF IRAN AND THE WORLD,AND REFLECTION,PROJECTION AND REJECTION IN A NEW FRAME AND PHRASE,WITHIN A NEW MINDSET STARTED.

BUT LIFE WAS IN HURRY AND IN RUSH OR EVEN RUNNING.

THE POETRY OF THIRD WAVE/MOJ SEVOM BECAME

THE POETRY OF IMAGES , BREVITY AND APHORISM.

NIMA ,WITH A NEW VISION OF THE WORLD AND PERCEPTION OF BEING,WROTE HIS FIRST NOTABLE LONG POEM AND METAPHORICALLY CALLED IT :AFSANEH/LEGEND,

A LONG POEM TO START A NEW WAVE ,THE FIRST WAVE OF MODERN PERSIAN POETRY,FOLLOWED BY HIS STUDENTS AND FOLLOWERS .

AND THIS IS WHAT WE CALLED WAVE OF NIMA'S AND NIMAI'S POETRY,

AS THE FIRST WAVE IN MODERN PERSIAN POETRY,

WHICH STARTED AROUND 1300/1921 AND CONTINUED TO 1332/1953.

(table-1)

AT THE TIME OF 1332 COUP D'ETAT AGAINST MOHAMMAD MOSSADDEGH,POETRY FOUND A STRONGER SOCIAL ACCENT

BUT DUE TO CENSURESHIP AND SUPPRESSION AND IN RESPONSE TO THAT,WAS HIDDEN IN THE CRYPTIC LANGUAGE AND WRAPPED IN SYMBOLS AND MYSTERIES

WHEN REACHED THEIR AUDIENCE.

IN 1340'S-1350'S/1960'S-1970'S

POETRY WAS ALL EMOTION AND ENTHSIASM

IN MODERN HERMETIC LANGUAGE THAT CONSTITUTED

2ND WAVE /MOJ DOVOM

OF MODERN PERSIAN POETRY

AND THIS REFLECTED IN

PRE-MOJ SEVOM POETRY OF

MOJ NOW/NOUVELLE VAGUE/NEW WAVE

SHER HAJM/ESPACEMENTLISM OR POETRY OF VOLUME

MOJ NAB/PURE WAVE,SOMETIME CALLED SHER NAB OR PURE POETRY

AND ALL ACCOMPANIED WITH POETRY OF AGITATION/POETRY OF JEST/POETRY OF AGAINST/SOCIAL POETRY

with realism and naked truth against surrealism and superrealism.

AS MENTIONED ,THE POETRY OF MOJ SEVOM/THIRD WAVE

IS POETRY OF CONCEPTS IN IMAGES AND APHORISM

A SINCERE LOOK AT BEINGS AND TODAY.A POETRY OF SHORT STRUCTURE AND COMPACT IN A RAPID LOOKING. WITH IMAGES CLOSING IN ITSELF IN A SHORT MOMENT.

...THAT MOMENT OF MOVEMENT AGAIN.

THIS COULD BE A HERITAGE OF FAHLAVIAT or PAHLAVAT,KHOSRAVANI,PRE-GATHA,GATHA OF ZOROASTER,DOBEITI (couplet or distitch),CHAHAR PAREH (four pieces,or better: four hemistitches),TABARI,SHARVEH ,ASHIGHI AND OTHER TARANEH OR SONGS OF FOLKLORE,AND IN A GENERAL AND MORE INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN FORM : ROBAI OR RUBAY

AS IN KHYYAM'S RUBAYIAT,AS WELL AS NIMA'S ROBAI AND NIMA'S TABARI DOBEITI ,OF NIMA'S DIVAN RUJA AND HIS COLLECTED OEUVRES.

ALL THESE ARE WITH THE SAME COMPLETE STRUCTURE IN FORM AND SHAPE OF PERSIAN POETRY.

OR IT COULD BE CONSIDERED AS CONTINUATION OF MEDITERRANEAN POETRY AND VICE VERSA ESPECIALLY IN WORKS OF GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI OF ITALY,JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ AND VICENTE ALEIXANDRE OF SPAIN,GEORGE SEFERIS AND ODYSSEAS ELITIS OF GREECE.

OCTAVIO PAZ OF MEXICO,PABLO NERUDA OF CHILE IN HIS SURREALIST PERIOD,THAT I HAVE TRANSLATED EXTENSIVELY AND PUBLISHED THEM IN FARSI FOR YEARS...

THIS FORM IS ALSO SEEN IN HAIKU,A JAPANESE POEM,ALTHOUGH IT MIGHT BE ADAPTED FROM PERSIAN VERSIONS OF SHORT POEMS LIKE ROBAI AND PARTICULARLY DOBEITI WHICH HAS ITS EYES ON NATURE,AS IN CLASSICAL HAIKU MASTERED BY BASHO,BUSON,ISSA AND SHIKI IN 17TH TO 20TH CENTURY JAPAN AND OR IN CHINESE POETRY,AS WELL.

THIS TYPE OF POETRY COULD BE FOLLOWED IN OUVRES OF OZDEMIR ASEF OF TURKEY ,FEIZ AHMAD FEIZ OF PAKISTAN,IN LANGSTON HUGHES AND OTHER BLACK POETS OF U.S. AND AFRICA,IN JACK KEROUAC OF BEAT MOVEMENT AND OTHER TRADITIONAL AND MODERN HAIKU MASTERS...

THIRD WAVE POETRY IS THE POTERY OF A GLANCE BUT NOT STARING.AND TAKING THE FEWEST WORDS FOR MORE THOUGHTS AND IMAGES.

ITS TRACE ALSO CAN BE FOUND IN ANY CULTURE OR SCHOOL OF POETRY AROUND THE WORLD BUT WE ASSUME IT HAS LONGER AND STRONGER ROOTS

IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF PERSIAN POETRY AND THE EXPANSIVE CULTURE BEHIND IT.THAT IS WHAT WE INHERITED IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN POETRY AND TRNSLATED IT INTO MODERN AND POSTMODERN LANGUAGE OF OUR GENERATIONS AND TIME.

adopted and translated from

FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI:MOJ SEVOM DAR SHER MOASSER IRAN-1 ,

DONYAYE SOKHAN,TEHRAN,NO.15,DAY 1366/1987,PART 1,PP.4-5,

part 2 appeared in no.16,DONYAYE SOKHAN,BAHMAN 1366,and will follow

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