The mother in the words of Persian poets

IranVisual and performing arts1402 (2023/24)

In Islamic and Iranian culture, mother is the queen of the world of words. A word full of respect and tenderness and beauty. This word also has a lofty place in Persian literature. In our contemporary poetry, poets such as Iraj Mirza with "Qalb-e Madar" and Shahriar with "Ey Vay Madaram" have composed lasting works describing the mother's place that many of us have in our memory. 

Looking at the repetition of the word mother in the verse and prose of Persian poets, we see that the two leading poets in the use of this word are among the ancient and classical poets. Poets such as Ferdowsi and Rumi are masnavi poets in whose works this word has been repeated more because of the narrative nature of their poetry's content. 

The first contemporary poet in this chart in whose works the highest rate of repetition of the word mother is seen is Malek osh-Shoara Bahar. In addition to the value and respect he holds for the mother, he always draws on the concept of mother as a metaphor in his poems.

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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

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