A Survey on the Concept of Freedom in poems by FaroukiYazdi and AbolghasemAlshaby

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Abdolreza Modareszadeh ¹ , Zainab Khoramaabadi Arani ² , Aboozar Ghasemi Arani ³ , Hassan Sefareshi Bidgoli ⁴

1 - Associate Professor on Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Kashan Branch, Kashan, Iran
2 - PhD student in Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, KashanBranch, Kashan, Iran
3 - PhD Student in Arabic Language and Literature, University of Kermanshah, Kermanshah. Iran
4 - PhD Student in Arabic language and literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2013-04-27 Accepted : 2013-08-02 Published : 2013-08-23

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Abstract :

The  concept  of  freedom  has  beenexpressed  in  different  ways  in differentcultures and societies. This expression has a special place among African  and  Asian  nations  such  as  Iran  tasting  the  bitter  sense  of despotism and colonialism.Poets in such nations have constantly used their poetic  and  gentle  soul  to  cry  for  freedom  and  they  have  played  an important role to inform people of their rights. FaroukiYazdi and A. Alshaby are both have been introduced as “liberal poets”. The concept of freedom in their verses are expressedand definedwith words like freedom, law,  resistance  against  colonialism, dictatorship.  Authors  in  this  paper have tried to introduce and study the two poetsin a comparative ways as liberal literary writers whose poems are enriched with expressions of freedom. Consequently, this study shows that the word and concept of freedom has a special place in their poetry. The only difference and exception between these poets is that the concept of freedom has more varied range of meaning in FaroukiYazdi’s poetryincomparison with Alshaby’s.