comparative analysis between the figure of the beloved in the Saadi and Petrarch's lyrics
Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies
ashraf sadat ashrafi
1
,
Dr.Mohammadreza Asad
2
,
Dr.Fatemeh Asgari
3
,
Dr.Mohsen Izadyar
4
1 - Ph.d. Student in Persian Lnguage and Literature, Islamic Azad University of Arak - IRAN
2 - Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Literature Department, Islamic Azad University of Arak - IRAN
3 - Assistant professor of Italian language and literature Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran - IRAN
4 - Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Literature Department, Islamic Azad University of Arak - IRAN
Keywords: comparative literature, Saadi, Petrarca, The figure of the beloved, the concept of love,
Abstract :
The first purpose of this original research is to present and the to know better the love poetry and the essential elements of poetics of Francesco Petrarca, the famous Italian love lyrics father who set up Humanism in Europe, with a particular textual emphasis on the different points of convergence between his love lyrics and those of his contemporary, a great Persian poet, Saadi. In this paper, using some available sources and making a series of textual and lexical analyzes on two corpus available in comparison, we look for the thematic and stylistic similarities between two poetry collections that are the main subject of this study. Another aim of this research is to find the different points of divergence that recurs normally in two eastern and western poets’ works from the general point of view of the figure of the beloved one who is the principal subject of the poems in question.
_||_