NIMALOGY: MOJ MAGAZINE 4/15 ENGLISH
Nima's AFSANEH, a poem of love and life, was created and published by 1301/1922 during the movement of symbolism in the world. It has been considered by critics as a realistic and romantic Masnavi-like long poem to start the modern era of Persian Poetry , and influencing contemporary poets. On the other hand, this was the year of the publication of James Joyce's Ulyces, the most important novel of twentieth century in the world.It was also a year after the publication of Yeki Bud Nabud, or Once Upon a Time of Mohamad Ali jamalzadeh , a hallmark in Persian literature and short story writings. Although Afsaneh,meaning legend, and used as a girl's name .was inspired by Nima's love to Safura, a peasant girl, it was dedicated to Nezam Vafa, the poet and teacher. Still Nima,the father of modern Persian poetry makes his new poetical status out of his ideas, real stories, time, people and places, painting pains and sorrows and suffering that he himself calls " social- personal experiences."
Poetry is the reflection of images and dreams even if it refers to other applicable paradigms of realities, or as we call them signifiers. Poetry believes in no real realities and that is why it creates its own reality out of everything in our surrounding world seen and sensed, or in the wide world of dreams and fantasies.
In his introduction to Afsaneh , to describe structure as a play with dialogue within the dialogue,Nima writes:
O young poet !
" This structure that has placed in my AFSANEH to show a natural and free dialogue may not please you at once, and you may not appreciate it as much as I do. So you may ask why a light lenghty Ghazal compares to classical Ghazals containing so many words? But my only point here has been freedom of language in a long subject.
And so I choose a way to fit a dialogue as previously has been approached by Molana Mohtasham Kashani and others. And finally I wanted to take more advantage of all these.
I believe this is the best structure for plays , to be expressive . So for this, as for different types of poetry, I will call my Afsaneh a play, and no other names fit into it. This is a proper structure to make play and let the people talk freely. If some structure like Masnavi (Mathnavi or Couplets) can tell a narrative or express a subject with little freedom and deliverance in its extends and make your heart and mind move.
In comparison, this structure has plenty of advantages. This structure has a capacity to take more subjects.: description, novel, tragedy, Irony, and what you will .
This structure is receptive of characters in your narratives as you wish. As it lets them talk naturally or decisive in a word or two , or in a Mesraa (Hemistitch) to lay their own questions and answers without adding your words and placing them in their mouth just to utter a word or two. In fact , in this structure people do not partake in all of those troublesome poetical obligations of classicists and do not include much of " He said.He answered" to lengthen their poems.
What has made me believe in this new structure is to observe meanings and the nature of things as nothing is more important for poets than explaining nature and simplifying meanings.
When I finishe my play and set the stage , I will tell you how and what I want to say . But now with some little thoughts you may not understand what I was after and what the differences of these structures with the old ones are. You will find my thoughts again on the introduction of the next play. This Afsaneh is only a sample.
NIMA YUSHIJ
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