The Criticizing of the Lyric Poems of Hafez According of Formalists

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Masood Sepahvandi ¹

1 - The faculty member of Khoramabad Azad University

Received: 2012-02-22 Accepted : 2012-05-03 Published : 2012-08-22

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Abstract :

Formalists    consider    literary    works    without    concentration    of ersonality,spiritual,and beliefs of writer.According to them, a litrary work is an absolute form.Therefore, in confronting to a literary work, form is important,and not meaning.They believe that the literary world is different from the real world,and it is not expected to gain knowledge from literary works. According to formalists, literary feats is worth to criticize because of their clear language, syntax, and artistic methods. The poems of Hafez which is a high example of eloquence,the delicacy of the poetic style and sentences,   the   miracle   of   speech,   and   the   kinds   of   ambiguity ,obscurity,symmetry, paradox, and the rules of phonetics, meaning, and even spiritual matters,is one of the suitable texts to criticize according to formalists. In this paper, the writer criticizes a lyric poem of this poet from the view of formalists.