The Structure of Roudaki's Poetry

Abstract

The Samanid era, known as the golden age of Islamic-Iranian culture, is considered as the blossoming period of the great structure of Islamic-Iranian civilization and culture. This chapter in the history of Iranian culture signifies the dominance of rationalism and humanism. It also marks the glorious days of the structure of structures. Poetry of this period, pioneered by Rudaki who is also considered as its father, increasingly reaches its climax and other great poets emerged after Rudaki. In this article, we explored Rudaki's poetry to find out the secret of its structure and everlasting beauty. Eventually we concluded that not only has the individual creativity of the poet played an important role in this matter- he had created, through his magical powers, a poetry which represents the architecture of language in itself and made human emotions musical through language- but also the historical role of the era in which the structure of structures was at its climax, played a very influential role in this regard.

Keywords

• Rudaki
• Persian poetry
• The structure of structures
• Individual creativity
• Historical role