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Bahār composed his first poem at age eight, at which time he also chose the name Bahār, meaning Spring, as his pen name (takhallos in Persian). It is known that Bahār chose this pen name after Bahār Shirvāni, a poet and close friend of his father’s, after Shirvāni’s death. Shirvāni was a renowned poet during Nasser-al-Din Shah Qajar.
