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A
Persian Listening Lesson about Rudaki and FerdowsiAdapted from
Persh Listening
(2009)
Chapter
7
Persian Poems
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Chapter
7:
Persian
Poems.
315
7.1.
A
Lyric
by
Rudaki
The 10th-century Persian poet Rudaki (d. 94011) is the first major poet in the Neo-Persian or New Persian language
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which emerged in the 10th century, after two centuries in which Middle Persian (or Pahlavi)gradually disappeared and Arabic held sway in writing on the Iranian plateau in the aftermath of the Arab Musliminvasion of the region and their defeat of the SPsPnid Empire (226651 CE). The New Persian language first becameimportant in the SPmPnid kingdom centered in BokhPrP. Rudaki served as a poet in the SPmPnid court in his nativecity of BokhPrP and reportedly composed upwards of 100,000 verses of poetry. Only a hundred or so coupletsremain. Despite differences in vocabulary, word forms, and phrase and sentence patterns, Rudaki's poems are notdifficult for literate native speakers of Persian to read today, nearly 1,100 years later.97.1
I.
Read this free translation of a Rudaki poem and then listen to the recording of the poem on
PL-Track
102
without looking at the translation or its Persian transcription on the next page.
1
Be happy with black-eyed beauties, really happy,because this world offers nothing but fantasy and wind.
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Be happy with what you have,and don't think about the past.
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That curly-haired musk-scented beauty and
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The person who gives and receives is the lucky one,while unlucky is the person who gets nothing as a result of giving nothing
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How unfortunate that this world is no more than wind and clouds.So. bring me some wine. Whatever will be will be!97.1.2. Read the following list of words which exhibit prefixes, suffixes, or compounded elements, and then listen toRudaki's poem again for such words. Check any words in the list
(8)
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