Golchin Gilani


Majd-al-Din Mir-faḵrāʾi was an Iranian poet, who better known by his pen name Golchin Gilani.

Biography

His father, Sayyed Mahdi Mir-faḵrāʾi, was an Iranian Governor of Sabzevar County and Qom County. Majd-al-Din went to primary school in his birthplace and went to high school in Tehran. After getting his bachelor's degree, he moved to England and earned an MD, and spent the rest of his life in England.
In the 1940s, Gilani worked as a translator for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as writing, translating, and recording newsreel narration for Movietone News. Majd-al-Din specialized in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He died in London on December 20, 1972, and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in Southwest London .

''The Rain''

The Rain, published in 1944, is probably his most famous poem. It's a long poem about his adventure in jungles in Rasht when he was ten years old. the first half of poem tells about the nice weather and the clear sky; then in the second-half It suddenly begins to rain :
"slowly,the clouds won
and it began to rain"
and he says about how did he enjoy that weather; too; that becomes the result of the poem. the last lines tell :
"so hear this; my kid :
for an experienced man,
the life, if good, if bad,
is nice;
is nice;
is nice."