جمال الدين محمدعبدالرزاق اصفهاني ، شاعري در كشاكش بوده ها و بايدها

Djamal al-Din Abd al-Razzagh Isfahani, a poet torn between realities and ideals

It seems as though the 6th century was the age of unstable and fickle poets without any reliable social, economic and intellectual standpoints. The poets of the age were neither like some of their predecessors - such as Rudaki and Onsori - profited from their patrons endless endowments and generosities nor like some of their successors - such as Attar and Mowlana - looking for experiencing new horizons and territories in poetry far from the dominance of the court. Djamal al-Din Abd al-Razzagh Isfahani was one of the outstanding poets of the age. On the one hand, he was concerned with religious and moral values. and on the other, he actually ignored them either for covetousness or for helplessness. He both composed panegyrics and sonnets and rebuked himself for this very act. He partook of philosophy and knowledge; however, there are overtones of instability and fickleness in the outward appearance of his poetry. Nevertheless, his poetry is not of the kind to be attributed to a desire for variation or the defamiliarzing nature of art and poetry in order to clear the poet of polluting the essence of art with lust and petty ambitions. However, it should be taken into consideration that the poetry of this group of poets is more a clear reflection of the age of the incompetent rulers who controlled the course of art and poetry according to their own wish and desires than the poetsʹ personalities.