Modern Poetry
Modern Persian poetry came into existence after Nima Yushij. Some notable figures include:
- Nima Yushij
- Ahmad Shamlou
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
- Fereydoon Moshiri
- Sohrab Sepehri
- Manouchehr Atashi
- Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Simin Behbahani
- Bijan Jalali
- Mohammad Zohari
- Mina Assadi
- Mohammad Ali Sepanloo
Read more about this topic: Intellectual Movements In Iran
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“And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
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“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
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