ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem was inspired by the Persian epic Shah Namah written by Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi was one of the influential poets of Persian literature. Shah Namah or Book of Kings is a national epic of Greater Iran. Sohrab and Rustom are the son and father duo who are searching for each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sohrab and Rustum, epic poem in blank verse by Matthew Arnold, published in 1853 in his collection Poems. Among Arnold’s sources for this heroic romance set in ancient Persia were translations of an epic by the Persian poet Ferdowsī and Sir John Malcolm’s History of Persia (1815).

Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most popular story in the epic recounts how the Iranian Hercules, Rostam, unwittingly kills his own son Sohrab. A millennium later, Persian speakers still wrestle with this tragic ending, especially because Rostam is a model of magnanimity, chivalry and patriotism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Composed between 977 and 1010 by the Persian poet Ferdowsi (940-1020) under the patronage of the Samanid and Ghaznavid empires of Iran, it is relevant to both Zoroastrian and Muslim populations.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rostam or Rustam (Persian: [rosˈtæm]) is a legendary hero in Persian mythology, the son of Zāl and Rudaba, whose life and work was immortalized by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi in the Shahnameh, or Epic of Kings, which contains pre-Islamic Iranian folklore and history.