Learn Persian with trying conversation. Lesson 61.

Sohrabsi pehri, Dargolestan.

Hello and welcome to Lesson 61 of the Learn Persian with Trying Conversation podcast series.

My name is Leila, and I'm joined here with our dear friend Fati Chafinuni.

Hello.

So if you listen to the last podcast lesson, 60, you don't necessarily have to have gone

through all those to understand this lesson, but we said that we were going to transition

now to poetry.

The first 60 lessons focused on language learning, vocabulary, grammar, culture of the Persian language.

And as we said in lesson 60, a big reason that people learn the Persian language is to understand

our rich, rich history of poetry, something that Thaid is very familiar with because it comes

up in his music a lot.

Yeah, and you and I took a poetry class at UT with Dr. Hillman.

That's right. Yeah, we did. That was many years ago.

And I even think this poem was kind of spoken of and discussed with Dr. Hillman.

And Dargolestana is one of Sorabariparie's most distinguished and most iconic poems.

And I thought this was a perfect first poem because it has really simple language.

You'll hear really simple nouns, really simple phrases that a lot of you will understand

if you've been studying Persian for a little bit, but it's such a deep and beautiful poem. Before we get

into the actual poem, though, let's talk for a second about Sohrabsepeji. So this is a contemporary

poet. He wrote poems in the last century. So a lot of you are familiar with,

you know, Hafez and Saadi and Numi, which are our famous classic poets. Today we chose to do

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