A Surrealistic Reading of Hafez Poetry

mohammad namdari ¹ ( studnt )
mohtasham mohammadi ² ( Assistant Professor of Kazeroon University )

Submited date : 2023-06-29 Accepted date : 2024-01-28

Keywords: Hafez Poetry, Eastern mysticism (Sufism), subjectivity, unconscious, Keywords: Surrealism, dream,

Abstract :

: Abstract Surrealism, a cultural movement developed in the first half of the twentieth century, is a psychological approach to literature: it pays special attention to the vast realm of feeling and imagination. Similarity between the Surrealism of the West and the mysticism of the East has at times caused the two to be mistaken for the same thing. They are both in pursuit of true mentality and spiritual perfection. In case of the Surrealists, the outbreak of World War I, and for mystics, the spread of the Islamic school and the Mongol invasion caused them to flee from objectivity to subjectivity. Hafez is one of the prominent figures in the history of mysticism and Sufism in Iran, and this tendency is evident in his poems. In fact, most of the Surrealistic elements are present in the poetry of Hafez. In this research, nine of the common principles between Western Surrealists and Eastern mysticism, Hafez in particular, have been investigated and analyzed in a comparative way: automatic writing; objective coincidence; negation of time and space; inaccessibility and inadequacy of language; love and freedom; sleep, dream, and imagination; madness and drunkenness; flamboyance of expression; and finally, humor. ,