Khayyam and André Paul Guiliaume Gide Approaches to Gaining Pleasure

Subject Areas : شعر

Mahboubeh Fahim Kalam ¹ , Mohammad Reza Mohseni ²

1 - Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch
2 - Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch

Received: 2012-09-19 Accepted : 2012-09-19 Published : 2010-05-01

Keywords: literature, symbolism, مرگ, Death, خوش باشی, اغتنام, نمادپردازی, زندگی, Gaining pleasure, life, Symbolist, Rubaiyat,

Abstract :

Although it seems a little bit strange at first to compare Khayyam, the 5th century AH poet with the contemporary French writer André Gide but there are similarities between them as much as there are differences. The concept of gaining pleasure in life and enjoying its moments is central to Khayyam’s mind and poetry. By contemplating the works of André Gide especially “Fruits of the Earth” one understands that they also include similar themes. Thus the present article examines the literary-philosophical trends of these two poets which have a lot in common in this regard. This article tries to compare the works of these two scholars to clarify their intellectual attempts in promoting the idea of gaining pleasure and seizing the day and in parallel it attempts in explaining the ideology of a French writer and an Iranian poet while exploring how Khayyam’s poetry has affected the themes applied by André Gide.