The Literary Array of Paradox in John Donne and Saadi Shirazi’s Works

Subject Areas : شعر

Fatemeh  Azizmohammadi ¹ (Faculty Member, Department of …, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.)
Hamedreza  Kohzadi ² (M.A. Graduate, Department of …, …, … University, … Iran.)

Received: 2014-01-20 Accepted : 2014-01-20 Published : 2013-04-01

Keywords: Mysticism, John Donne, جان دان, تناقض, تضاد, سعدی شیرازی, تصوف, Saadi Shirazi, Paradox, contradiction,

Abstract :

"Paradox" as a literary array plays an important role in the literature of East and West, particularly in Persian Greek and English literature. Using paradox is a method of literary criticism, including a review of ambiguous statements, deduction and subsequent concept of them .Both Saadi Shirazi and John Donne use the paradox to investigate the dominant contradictions that are, to some extent, incomprehensible to ordinary readers. This paper attempts to review and examine the challenge of the readers’ public understanding through the contradictions occuring in their minds by reading these two poets’ poems .This article seeks also to show how the emergence of such thoughts, and goals of these two poets in the application of the paradox