0
Mbm2000 Posted 16 years ago

A poem by Hamid Mosadegh and an answer from Forugh Farrokhzad

Hi everybody,
recently I have translated these poems to Eglish and I have done my best to keep the poetic style in both of them.I hope you will understand the meaning easily.
First of all I wanna introduce these great Persian poets.

Hamid Mosadegh (or Mosadeq), January 31, 1940, Isfahan, Iran – 28 November 1998, Tehran, Iran) was a contemporary poet, author and also a lawyer.

Forugh Farrokhzad (January 5, 1935, Tehran, Iran – February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh is arguably one of Iran’s most influential female poets of the twentieth century. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast.

He has a famous poem from “Blue ,Black and Gray” :

You laughed at me and didn’t know,

How apprehensively I pilfered the apple from the neighbour’s garden.

the gardener ran after me fast,

saw the apple in your hand,

wrathfully looked at me, look,

the bitten apple ,from your hand fell on the ground,

and you left and still,

for years in my ears slowly,

the rustle of your step repeatedly , minds me,

and I’m cogitating about this thought,

that why our small garden didn’t have apple.

Now let’s see the answer which is given by Forugh Farrokhzad:

I laughed at you,

Because I knew apprehensively you pilfered the apple from the neighbour’s garden.

My father ran after you fast,

and you did not know that the gardner of the neighbours garden is my old father,

I laughed at you to answer your love sincerely,

the spite in your eyes, then trembled my hands and,

the bitten apple fell on the ground from my hands,

“go!” my soul said,Because it did not want to memorize your bitter cry…

and I went and still for years in my mind slowly,

the perplexity of your spite,

minds me,

and I’m cogitating about this though that,

What if our garden didn’t have apple?

Translated by:Me
From Nodet blog
http://sampadcity.com/enblog/
Please tell me the mistakes I have made.
  
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

0 Answers

Related Questions