festival
Nowruz
also: نوروز, Persian New Year
The Persian New Year at the spring equinox, the festival of renewal; in the quatrains it is the season of rain-washed tulips, green grass, and the imperative to drink now.
Reading notes
- The Rubaiyat §19 Nowruz
The Persian New Year at the spring equinox, festival of rain, tulips, and new green. In this quatrain 'yesterday' translates dey — which is also Dey, the Persian month of midwinter, so the gone yesterday is doubly the dead of winter.