Dekhoda's "Ey Morgh-e Sahar" and Alfred de Musset's "Rappelletoi": A Comparative Study

Dehkhoda composed "Ey Morgh-e Sahar" [O Morning Bird"] in memory of his late friend, Mirza Jahangir Khan Sor-e Israfil. Literary critics believe that the style of this elegy proves Dehkhoda’s pioneering role in modern Persian poetry. It is further agreed upon that this poem is the first Persian poem in which the influence of European poetry can be observed. Some critics believe that Dehkhoda was influenced by Rajaei-zadeh’s Turkish poem entitled "Vagta keh Golob-e Bahar Yeksar". Rajaei-zadeh’s poem, which begins with "Vagta keh Golob-e Bahar Yeksar," is an imitation of "Rappelle-toi" by Musset, a French poet, who was deeply in love with George Sand (Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin), the famous French writer and novelist. This paper studies the probability of the influence of Musset ’s poem, and also Saberi’s poetic translation of Rajaei-zadeh’s poem into Persian, upon Dehkhoda.