She'r-e Nimaa'i (Persian: شعر نیمایی, lit. 'Nima poetry') is a school of Modernist poetry in Iran that is derived from the literary theory of Nima Yooshij, a contemporary Iranian poet. Nima Yooshij revolutionized the stagnant atmosphere of Iranian poetry with the influential poem Afsaneh, which was the manifesto of She'r-e Nimaa'i. He consciously challenged all the foundations and structures of ancient Persian poetry. The nature of Mazandaran, social criticism, and humor are just a few examples of the themes that Nima Yooshij used in his poems.[1] She'r-e Nimaa'i was the source of inspiration and growth of many great modern Iranian poets, including Sohrab Sepehri,[2]Forough Farrokhzad,[3]Mehdi Akhavan-Sales[4][5] and Fereydoun Moshiri.[6]
She'r-e Nimaa'i has a special place in modern Iranian poetry. It was used for the first colloquial language in Iranian poetry. The shutters became shorter and longer, and a new look was taken at the poem. Although many criticisms were leveled at Nima Yooshij at the beginning, the She'r-e Nimaa'i school of poetry was eventually adopted and grew rapidly.[7]
^AKHAVAN-E SALESS, MEHDI, Having turned to Nima Yushij (1896–1960), Akhavan spent long years introducing Nimaic poetry to Iranian audiences to good effect (Alishan, p. 130). Throughout his essays and books, Akhavan draws a basic distinction between Nima’s approach to poetic signification and the manner in which he invites his readers to participate in the act of creating meaning, on the one hand, and that of certain classical poets, on the other, who worked with a complex set of inherited concepts linked together throughout the centuries, and whose readers have been conditioned to anticipate adherence to conventions now defunct.
^Reyhani, Soolmaz (2014). Love in Nimai Poetry (based on the poems of Nima Yooshij, Fereydoon Moshiri, Sohrab Sepehri, Houshang Ebtehaj and Forough Farrokhzad). p. 93.