Influence of the People’s poet Suleyman Rustam on South Azerbaijani poet

Abstract

The People’s Poet Suleyman Rustam is a only poet of South Azerbaijan who wrote
more than 400 works on the theme of the South. His writings had a great influence on works
created both in the North and in the South and left an indelible mark on the emerging literature on
both sides. Many responses, compensations, analogy and imitative poems were written to these
works in South Azerbaijan.
In the South the poets are proud of Suleyman Rustam, consider him their teacher and are proud to
have learned the secrets of writing poetry from him.
“There is no well-known poet in the South who was not influenced by him”.
Not only the poetry of Suleyman Rustam, but also the linguistic features of his works influenced
Southern poets.
Although many events have happened to Tabriz over the years, but the traces of Suleyman Rustam
have not been erased from its streets, his voice from its squares, his poems from the memories of
his brave sons and moral daughters.