Learn Persian with Choye and Conversation?

Messen 62

Siky.

Thank you. Hello and welcome to episode 62 of Learn Persian with Trying Conversation.

Lesson 60, you know that we called that the last lesson of our language learning series,

and we talked about transitioning to poetry in later lessons.

And here we are a few months later, fulfilling that dream of getting to poetry.

The love of poetry was passed down to me mainly by my grandfather.

Even though he saw himself as a lover of physics and the sciences, he was equally mesmerized by poetry.

And I feel like, in general, in the Iranian culture, the sciences, he was equally mesmerized by poetry. And I feel like in general in the Iranian culture,

the sciences and arts really live side by side in harmony

and are both equally respected.

And that can be seen in the importance that all Iranians place on the art of poetry.

So my grandfather would recite a line of poetry in response to any question I had or for

any life situation we found ourselves in. And later in his life, he actually developed a love for

Persian calligraphy. And before he died in 2012, he wrote out many of his favorite poems bound

and published them in volumes. He gifted to his family. So I have a couple of those books of poems that he wrote out.

So in this series of podcast episodes, I want to pass on that love of poetry to you.

And I'll be going through my favorite Persian poetry,

and many of them are going to be from these books that my grandfather gave me.

So although the poetry learned in these lessons

uses more intermediate or advanced language, we'll go through it very carefully and you don't

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