On the occasion of Mother's Day we examined the image of the mother in Persian poetry, and for this we introduced the poets who had the most hemistichs containing the word "mother." This time we have turned to the word "father." Once again it is Ferdowsi who has the most hemistichs containing this word.
Ferdowsi is a storyteller. A storyteller in whose tales the family has a very prominent role. Father or mother are not much the subject of Persian-speaking poets. Because in our lyric literature, romantic and mystical themes are found more often. But in the warp and weft of a story with wisdom-filled and homiletic themes such as the Shahnameh, these two concepts are referred to a great deal.
Rumi and Attar are also other masnavi-writing and storytelling poets who appear among the five leading poets in this chart.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian