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September 1st 1995
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0146000951
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Some poetry snobs find these verses corny, with their psuedo-archaism of langauge and what nowadays would be called Orientalizt romanticism.
To Hell with all that. I've always liked them. In fact, I memorized most of it when I was a kid.
"The moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on, nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel Half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
Yadda yadda.
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...more
To Hell with all that. I've always liked them. In fact, I memorized most of it when I was a kid.
"The moving Finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on, nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel Half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
Yadda yadda.
__________
...more
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It wasn't easy to praise wine in twelfth century Iran.After a long time that Baghdad had ruled in Iran ;an independent Iranian government was just going to be established. In Khayyam's poetry there's a sense of nostalgia towards old Persia with all its mythological kings as Jamshid and Keikhosru. If you compare his poetry with some of his contemporaries you see the difference. In his contemporary poetry you could see lots of poems in praise of prophet Mohammad and Imams but khayyam was the brave...more
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Read in January, 1988
Fitzgerald made five separate translations of this work. I generally prefer the third, though there are a couple of bits in the fifth that I like very much.
When reading the Rubaiyat, remember two things:
- It is not linear or meant to tell a story. It should largely be taken as a set of nearly independent quatrains, loosely coupled by theme. (With the exception of the protracted "metaphor of the pots" in the middle.)
- It's best read out loud. In F...more
When reading the Rubaiyat, remember two things:
- It is not linear or meant to tell a story. It should largely be taken as a set of nearly independent quatrains, loosely coupled by theme. (With the exception of the protracted "metaphor of the pots" in the middle.)
- It's best read out loud. In F...more
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Read in March, 2009
Omar Jayyam, sabio musulmán de comienzos del siglo XI. Ejemplo de hombre renacentista -en el ámbito árabe, claro está-, matématico, astrónomo, médico, y poeta, autor de los rubais. Vivió una vida interesantísima, al lado de emires, compañero de Hassan Sabbah, fundador de la secta de los assesini...
Tenía curiosidad por conocer ese libro que sirvió de argumento para Samarkanda, del citado autor, y lo encontré de casualidad en una de esas estupendas visitas que hago de cua...more
Tenía curiosidad por conocer ese libro que sirvió de argumento para Samarkanda, del citado autor, y lo encontré de casualidad en una de esas estupendas visitas que hago de cua...more
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Read in January, 1960
The edition I have is not available on Goodreads. I have the hardcover De Luxe Edition, Garden City Publishing Co, Inc., 1937. It is one of the books I grew up with and heard often during those early years--I think my father must have memorized the entire thing, probably when he was out to sea. My edition is on deluxe paper,with twelve illustrations in color by Edmund Dulac. It includes a biographical preface of Edward Fitzgerald (writer not identified), Fitzgerald's essay on Omar Khayyam and th...more
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Read in June, 2008
Many years ago, I purchased this version of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," a wise man who was born and died in Naishapur in the later 11th and early 12th centuries. Omar was a scientist of the day, studying astronomy. He was also part of a team selected to revise the calendar.
The "Rubaiyat" itself is a series of four line stanzas, following one another in ". . .a strange succession of Grave and Gay." Omar Khayyam wrote these. This edition features the ...more
The "Rubaiyat" itself is a series of four line stanzas, following one another in ". . .a strange succession of Grave and Gay." Omar Khayyam wrote these. This edition features the ...more
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دوستان عزیزم
رباعیات خیام را باید با هشیاری و دقت خواند .به فرم رباعیات دقبق شویم.او توانسته است با چینشی ریاضی وار ،شعرش را بدون دشواری زبانی به مخاطب برساند
ابر آمد و زار بر سر سبزه گریست
بی باده ی گل رنگ نمی شاید زیست
این سبزه که امروزه تماشاگه ماست ...more
رباعیات خیام را باید با هشیاری و دقت خواند .به فرم رباعیات دقبق شویم.او توانسته است با چینشی ریاضی وار ،شعرش را بدون دشواری زبانی به مخاطب برساند
ابر آمد و زار بر سر سبزه گریست
بی باده ی گل رنگ نمی شاید زیست
این سبزه که امروزه تماشاگه ماست ...more
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Anyone just paging through this book would think it would take an hour to read-there's only one verse to a page. It actually took me about three days to finish-granted I only had time to read it in spurts before I went to bed, but still. There are so many different meanings behind each individual line, and it takes forever to think of all of them and then decipher what Omar Khayyam wanted to say.
I think the story behind the longevity and legend of this poem is amazing. The original author...more
I think the story behind the longevity and legend of this poem is amazing. The original author...more
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Read in January, 1996
recommended to Soroush by:
Dont rememeberrecommends it for: Anybody who has started to look!
I think the title of "World's Best Love Poems" should say it all. But I like to add to it. The title of "Hakim" which in English means medicine man is not dealt to every poet. The title has an immense burden and meaning and is strongly connected to the character of the poet and his work. The title is a hint to the fact that he is aware of individuals, people and humanity from depth to the highest levels of gathering and understands the dilemmas of the society and the change o...more
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I was transfixed by the beauty of the language when I first read The Rubayat in high school. I found it in my grandmother's basement and was equally mesmerized by the lovely illustrations. The book I have slips into a sleeve. I cherish it. I don't have many books that survived a sudden, devastating move and subsequent flood, but this one did.
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Read in January, 1999
جامی است که عقل آفرین می زندش
صد بوسه ی مهر بر جبین می زندش
این کوزه گر دهر چنین جام لطیف
می سازد و باز بر زمین می زندش
دنیای عجیبی است رباعیات خیام حیرت و شک و علم و عشق جمله یکجا
صد بوسه ی مهر بر جبین می زندش
این کوزه گر دهر چنین جام لطیف
می سازد و باز بر زمین می زندش
دنیای عجیبی است رباعیات خیام حیرت و شک و علم و عشق جمله یکجا
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This translation by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs presents a work very different in tone from that presented by Edward Fitzgerald.
The tone of this version is cool, wry, sardonic, self-restrained, self-possessed, and by necessity resigned, whereas for me the tone of the Fitzgerald version is wild, excessive, romantic, unrestrained and, for all the words to the contrary, rebellious.
I admire and enjoy both versions, but nowadays I much prefer the Avery and Heath-Stubbs v...more
The tone of this version is cool, wry, sardonic, self-restrained, self-possessed, and by necessity resigned, whereas for me the tone of the Fitzgerald version is wild, excessive, romantic, unrestrained and, for all the words to the contrary, rebellious.
I admire and enjoy both versions, but nowadays I much prefer the Avery and Heath-Stubbs v...more
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Read in January, 2005
I name "the Robaiyat" the secret of life that Khayyam tells us. The fact of the matter is that He is actually the messenger of awakening. And it's not an exageration or reactionary if we want to name just two of the most great thinkers of all ages and centuries, one of the two is Omar khayyam, the astronomer, mathematician, philosopher,and poet of Persia. we celebrate his genius and thoughts for realising man from any captivity of thought and following it the captivity of culture and b...more
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گویند کسان بهشت با حور خوش است
من میگویم که آب انگور خوش است
این نقد بگیر و آن نسیه بدار
کاواز دهل شنیدن از دور خوش است
من میگویم که آب انگور خوش است
این نقد بگیر و آن نسیه بدار
کاواز دهل شنیدن از دور خوش است
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خیام اگر ز باده مستی خوش باش با ماهرخی اگر نشستی خوش باش
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recommends it for:
Poetry lovers
Come fill the cup in the fire of spring
The winter garment of repentance fling
The Bird of time has but little way to flutter.
And the bird is on the wing.
As Patrick Dennis wrote the line for Aunty Mame "Live!" "Live!" "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are staving to death!" "Live!" This Persian astronomer turned poet who lived and died nearly a millennia ago expresses much the same sentiment in some of the most beautiful ...more
The winter garment of repentance fling
The Bird of time has but little way to flutter.
And the bird is on the wing.
As Patrick Dennis wrote the line for Aunty Mame "Live!" "Live!" "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are staving to death!" "Live!" This Persian astronomer turned poet who lived and died nearly a millennia ago expresses much the same sentiment in some of the most beautiful ...more
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Read in December, 2008
I liked Fitzgerald's translations 1, 3 and 5, although 1 and 5 were best. The first one has the best imagery in the first three quatrains, and the fifth makes the concepts of the whole poem more clear, so read together, they work for me.
The overall message is something that resonates too; a deeper exploration of 'we are worm food' and 'eat drink and be merry' but with a spin that makes me not feel desolate about it. The sheer enjoyment of life here, of all the beauty and wonderment of havi...more
The overall message is something that resonates too; a deeper exploration of 'we are worm food' and 'eat drink and be merry' but with a spin that makes me not feel desolate about it. The sheer enjoyment of life here, of all the beauty and wonderment of havi...more
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گاویست در آسمان و نامش پروین
گاوی دگر نهفته در زیر زمین
چشم خردت باز کن از روی یقین
زیر و زبر دو گاو مشتی خر بین
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گردون نگری ز قد فرسوده ماست
جیحون اثری ز اشک پالوده ماست
دوزخ شرری ز رنج بیهوده ماست
فردوس دمی ز بخت آسوده ماست
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گاوی دگر نهفته در زیر زمین
چشم خردت باز کن از روی یقین
زیر و زبر دو گاو مشتی خر بین
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گردون نگری ز قد فرسوده ماست
جیحون اثری ز اشک پالوده ماست
دوزخ شرری ز رنج بیهوده ماست
فردوس دمی ز بخت آسوده ماست
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I think I read this for the first time when I was nine or ten and loved it. I'm not as sure upon rereading it. But I will always love the completeness of each rubaiyat.
I still like these:
XI
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse-- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
XXXVI
Ah, fill the Cup-- what boots it to repeat
How Time is slipping underneath ...more
I still like these:
XI
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse-- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
XXXVI
Ah, fill the Cup-- what boots it to repeat
How Time is slipping underneath ...more
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Read in May, 2006
خيام جام تلخ حقيقت را آراسته و واقعبينانه به مخاطب عرضه مي دارد و براي پرسش هاي دشواري چون مرگ و عشق پاسخ هايي پرمايه و عميق عرضه مي دارد او كه هم حكيم است و هم فيلسوف هم خردمند است و هم اديب
اين كوزه چو من عاشق زاري بودست
در بند سر زلف نگاري بودست
اين دسته كه بر گر...more
اين كوزه چو من عاشق زاري بودست
در بند سر زلف نگاري بودست
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