Importance of Mohammad-e Moghaddam's First Collection of Poetry, The Secret of Midnight, , in Persian free verse history

Abstract

The Secret of Midnight, consisting of 16 poems, is the first collection of poetry that Mohammad-e Moghaddam published in short-term period of his career as poet. With respect to lineation and ending the line, the collection is significant experience in Persian free verse history. Being strongly influenced by English modernist poets in the early decades of twentieth century, Moghaddam experienced some types of lineation in his poems which was without precedent in Persian poetry. All of the efforts to make lineation in poetry before him mostly was restricted to the traditional methods, but his venture in the collection introduced new way to the next generations of free verse poets. Making lines with applying different kinds of meters entailed some of Moghaddam's poems involving diversity of meters at the same poem and this method was kept by other free verse poets among some of the following modernist poets as creative technique. The manner of ending the line in some Moghaddam's poems according to Nima Yushidj, before publishing Nima's works is the unknown aspect of The Secret of Midnight. The Secret of Midnight, consisting of 16 poems, is the first collection of poetry that Mohammad-e Moghaddam published in short-term period of his career as poet. With respect to lineation and ending the line, the collection is significant experience in Persian free verse history. Being strongly influenced by English modernist poets in the early decades of twentieth century, Moghaddam experienced some types of lineation in his poems which was without precedent in Persian poetry. All of the efforts to make lineation in poetry before him mostly was restricted to the traditional methods, but his venture in the collection introduced new way to the next generations of free verse poets. Making lines with applying different kinds of meters entailed some of Moghaddam's poems involving diversity of meters at the same poem and this method was kept by other free verse poets among some of the following modernist poets as creative technique.