Native name مجدالدین میرفخرایی Nationality Iran Name Golchin Gilani | Pen name Golchin Gilani Genre Poetry Role Poet | |
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Died December 20, 1972, London, United Kingdom | ||
Rain again by golchin gilani
Majd-al-Din Mir-fakraʾi (Persian: مجدالدین میرفخرایی January 1, 1910 in Rasht - December 20, 1972 in London) was an Iranian poet, who better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani (Persian: گلچین گیلانی).
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Biography
His father, Sayyed Mahdi Mir-fakraʾi, was an Iranian Governor of Sabzevar County and Qom County. Majd-al-Din went to primary school in his birthplace and went to high school in Tehran. After getting his bachelor's degree, he moved to England and earned a PhD in medicine.
In the 1940s, Gilani worked as a translator for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as writing, translating, and recording newsreel narration for Movietone News.
The Rain
The Rain (Persian: باران, Baran), published in 1944, is probably his most famous poem. It's a long poem about his adventure in jungles in Rasht when he was ten years old. the first-half of poem tells about the nice weather and the clear sky; then in the second-half It suddenly begins to rain : "slowly,the clouds won and it began to rain" and he says about how did he enjoy that weather; too; that becomes the result of the poem. the last lines tell : "so hear this; my kid : for an experienced man, the life, if good, if bad, is nice; is nice; is nice."