# Persian through poetry

_Course · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/learn/courses/persian-through-poetry/_

Reading classical and modern Persian poems closely, in the original with guided translation.

## Record

- **Code**: IDCDC-PER-05
- **School**: Persian language
- **Levels**: F, P
- **Hours**: 24 · estimated hours
- **Format**: Online seminar with readings and recordings.
- **State**: outlined
- **Run**: built
- **Modules**: How Persian poems sound · Ferdowsi and the epic · Rumi and the masnavi · Sa'di and Hafez · Modern voices · Poetry in the diaspora
- **Outcomes**: Read selected poems aloud with metre and rhyme. · Explain key images and forms: ghazal, masnavi, ruba'i, free verse. · Compare translations and say what each keeps or loses. · Place each poet in time and place.

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