People’s Social Life in Nima’s Introduction to Akharin Nabard (The Last Fight)

Esmaeel Shahroudi (Ayandeh/Future) and Nosrat Rahmani are two unique poets in Persian poetry, composing their poems in Nima’s style from the 1950s until the 1970s.  These poets are exceptional in contemporary Persian poetry because Nima Yooshij wrote an introduction to one of their collected verses. Accordingly, Nima’s introduction to Esmaeel Shahroudi’s Akharin Nabard (The Last Fight) and Nosrat Rahmati’s Kooch (Migration) merits attention. Nima’s introduction to Akharin Nabard is more comprehensive than his introduction to Kooch thereby deserving to be analyzed and scrutinized. The current study concentrates on Nima’s introduction to Akharin Nabard to answer the question: Which feature in Shahroudi’s poetry influenced Nima and prompted him to write an introduction to it? The analysis of Shahroudi’s introduction and its comparison with his introduction to Kooch illustrate that Shahroudi’s attention to people’s social lives and Argo (hidden and folk language) were highlighted in Nima’s introduction. From the angle of discursive analysis, Nima’s instruction is like a practical discourse that establishes Argo in contemporary [Persian] poetry.