Nima Yushij’s letter to his wife Alieh
Nima Yushi
Most men treat women in a way they could not bear if women treated them in the
same way.
They buy a woman like a rug. Cruel and indifferent, they spread that rug under
their foot and trample on it. And finally they sell it without any sympathy
toward it.
For crushing and suppressing women, all religions, all countries, in both old
and modern eras have special laws and customs. I don’t know why!
I only know why I am not able to be indifferent. God divided all blessings of
the earth among His creatures. He gave the people money, selfishness and cruelty,
but to the poet he granted heart. And to that heart, he bestowed a mysterious
power to be crushed and suppressed, facing woman’s beauty and power.
Come my dear! Crush me forever! Imprison my heart for revenging female on male
Edited by: Christina Pacosz
Nima Yushi - Ali Sfandiari (1896-1959), the father of modern Iran poetry, when he decided to publish his poems, choose the pen name Nima Yushij, which means: an innovator from Yush (a village in the north of Iran). A simple shepherd, the son of a farmer, started a revolution in Persian poetry: Nima Yushij ‘s solitary struggle as a true poet made possible freedom for Persian poetry that was in chains of rhyme and rhythm for long centuries.
