Nostalgia in Barzegari (scything) Poems: A Genre of Bakhtiary Poetry

From the view point of typology, Bakhtiary poetry is enriched with a wide variety of poems. Several genres and categories of Bakhtiary poetry are "Saru","Dowalali","Sayyadi" (hunting),"Shouxi", "Balal", and "Barzegari" (scything). Barzegari which is known by terms such as Boveru, Baveru, Bidad, and Barzeyri, narrates gloominess, nostalgia, love, grief, expectations, and concerns of croppers who were busy scything and harvesting their crops far from their family and tribe, in a hot weather region called Garmesir in spring. They expressed their feelings and emotions through poems or songs. One of the main themes of these poets was the sowerchr('39')s sense of nostalgia away from family. This study aims to investigate the factors and several aspects of nostalgia in Barzegari genre of Bakhtiary poetry. This nostalgia is divided into manchr('39')s and womanchr('39')s categories. From the prominent aspects of manchr('39')s nostalgia of Barzegary poetry, homesickness for the hometown, reminiscence of reaching the beloved, feeling nostalgia for the tents and the coolness of springs in Sardsir, the grief for the nature in general, and Sardsir plants in particular, and finally the grief of homelessness and loneliness could be identified.  The womenchr('39')s nostalgia depicts their mental states such as separation and waiting for the lover.