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A Glance At The Literature and Dari Folk Couplet of Afghanistan

Tuesday September 29, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Dari folk literature is a part of Afghan people culture that transfers the people’s imagination, feelings, wishes and ideas from one generation to another generation and is indicator of the standards of the aesthetic and ethical of the every tribe of Afghanistan. The folk literatures are also called the language and public verbal arts because folk literature is the spiritual heritage of past generations that orally in the form of hobby works become famous among posterity. The most important part is historical and legendary fictions, semi-historical, heroic, romantic, ethical symbolic, allegorical and imagination. Mostly, general poetry is in various species like couplet, compositions, songs and the ‘Masnavi and non-performing works are presenting with melody. Poems and songs according to the principles of literature did not establish and more emphasize is on the melody of the word which is different types of folk literature and are popular among people with certain ages. Of course to create beauty and order in the poem, the third line must be rhymed with other lines. It should be noted that couplet should have weight and rhyme if doesn’t have then it is called quatrain or piece. Karima Malikzada

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