A Brief History of Metaphor in Persian Poetry
February 9, 2021 A significant feature of Persian poetry that distinguishes it from most verse written in a European language is that almost all of it—from the earliest poems, written over a thousand years ago, to the present day—remains relatively accessible to a contemporary speaker of the language. The 17th-century English poet Edmund Waller bemoaned the fact that, already, his contemporaries could no longer easily read the works of the 14th-century poet Chaucer: But who can hope his lines should long Last in a daily changing tongue… We write in sand, our language grows, And like the...
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