The effect of modernity on modernization of Persian (Iranian) Poetry in 1950s and 1960s

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

Golnar Yaghmaei ¹ , Sayed Mohammad Bagher Kamaladdini ² , mahmoud sadeghzadeh ³

1 - payamnoor univercity-Yazd-Iran
2 - payamnoor unhvercity-Yazd-Iran
3 - assistant professor of Islamic Azad University, Yazd branch، Iran

Received: 2019-08-10 Accepted : 2019-08-10 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: symbolism, new poetry, modernity, social classes, classical poetry, form and content,

Abstract :

   (Surveying the Mashruteh Literature (the literature produced after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1950s) and the influence of the Western civilization, the present study investigates the characteristics of Persian poetry in terms of form and content in 1950s and 1960s. The literature of the period is characterized by deconstructing the archaic poetic patterns and meters while preserving the notion of meter and rhyming words followed by French symbolism, by symbolic adaptation of socio-political themes, by emphasizing the ambiguous aspects of the language by the emergence of free verse and. Moreover, the emergence of guerrilla poetry, the popularization of a hallucinatory language and far-fetched concepts in poetry and the revival of the Islamic identity particularly in 1950s are what define poetry of the period. Modernism has influence the poetry of the period directly (through familiarization with the Western literature) and indirectly (through forming various social classes and sectors, cultural movements and the interaction between them). The debates among the advocates of the classic forms and the supporters of the “new poetry,” the divergences between “new wave” poets and “new poetry” movement are reflective of theemergence of newly-formed sections and cultural movements that were all either the fruit of modernism or activated as the result of it.)