NIMA'S KEYWORDS AND KEYNOTES /6*

 

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INTRODUCTION

Nima challenged the words.He was not intimidated by the words challenging him.

He unveiled and unmasked them in order to name them anew

names according to his imagination

not thought and unsaid.

Much has been said by an large ,about language of Nima and so called"pitfalls of language".

This is a misconcept in conservative approach towards language and especially language of poetry.

.While Nima's language is directed towards innovation and extention of the language which is long being in the state of ecstasy.

In poetry,motto of "we do not write incoorectly" is more against poetry and poets,who aginst the current,always make new wave by affecting  language and words,to relieve and revive them.

poets make new order of language by treating it disorderly.

And that's what Nima did.

Although Nima also said:

THERE IS ORDER IN DISORDER.

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What Nima did to language was invading the barriers and lines.The lines.The solid lines,armored for resistance against all attacks,during a long period of time.And time was what the artist,our poet,believes to be timeless.One strategy to invade this line was through words.The new words.Order of new words.And the new identity and their connotations.

Nima other than invention of new words,or discovering new capacity for them,brought a part of this neology from his mother tongue,Mazandarani,also called Tabari,Tapuri,or Tati,as Nima himself mentioned,and also Gilaki,as a general terminology for languages of SHOMAL,northern part of Iran,at Caspian Sea.Mazandarani is one of the Middle Farsi language of old Iran/Persia.Is the language NIma grew up with in his birthplace,Yush,until he moved to Tehran with his family to attend Roshdieh elementary School(also:Hayat Javid).and later to Saint Louis High School,with French,as dominant teaching language.

By adding a vernacular language to Farsi,as the official literary language,Nima expanded the latter,and this was done not only by words but also with syntax and grammar of the former.He also left this point for his followers,Nimai Poets,Who continued to invade the lines,according to their own capacities and visions.

Like mohamad ebn hassan Kateb Amoli of Tarikh Tabarestan,Olia Amoli of Tarikh Ruyan,Zahireddin Marashi Amoli of Tarikh Tabarestan Ruyan Mazandaran,Onsorolmoali Keikavus of Ghabusnameh,who wrote poetry and prose in Tabari Language,Nima also wrote poems in this language and pronounced himself as SHAER TATI(MAZANDARANI)\nIMA'S mAZANDARANI POEMS IN FORM OF DOBEITI IS COOLECTED IN HIS BOOK:

DIVAN RUJA

(POEMS OF MORNING STAR,also RUZ or : day)

                                                                nima in yush,mazandaran

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