Nasrollah Mardani was born in the city of Kazeroun (Fars province, Iran) in 1947. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was very active in literary festivals and conferences across Iran. These events were very important in identifying and absorbing young talents, giving direction to the country’s literary thinking, and shaping Islamic Revolutionary thinking in poetry and can be taken into consideration.
The importance of Mardani in the poetry of the Islamic Revolution was the production of a special kind of poetry in those days which served as a fast and capacious vehicle for the revolutionary spirit and literary perception of the people of that time. His poetry relied on the tradition of classic poetry, had a revolutionary spirit, new and hopeful content, and dealt with the sensational expression of the people’s epics. He invited the ones interested in 6utionary poetry to a simple literary style.
In contemporary ode, Mardani endeavoured to make use of heroes and symbols to serve religious poetry and in a way, he distanced from the traditional images of “flowers and nightingales” of ancient poetry and the denigration of radical inclinations of the so-called open-minded; he gave poetry a figurative language with religious content which was both sensational and compatible with the popular revolutionary spirit. He is one of the narrators of the scenes of the Islamic Revolution in the language of poetry.
In 2003, Mardani left on pilgrimage to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala while he was ill and passed away in this holy city at the age of 56.
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