Investigation and reflection of social issues in contemporary poetry based on Hossein Manzavi's ghazals

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

Zainab Watankhah ¹ , Seyyed Mahmoud Seyed Sadeghi ² , Maryam Parhizkari ³

1 - Ph.D. Student of Persian Language and Literature, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, IranBushehr, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

Received: 2023-06-23 Accepted : 2023-06-23 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: contemporary poetry, love, society, Love poem, Hussain Manzavi,

Abstract :

  Lyrical literature is the oldest type of literature in which the poet displays his existential truth and expresses his personal feelings towards life and society, in such a way that social realities and society can be objectively reflected in a detailed and limited way. He saw literary works. The purpose of studying societies in poetry is to analyze the social concerns and issues of that period. Hossein Manzavi is one of the greatest ghazal writers of the present era, who is famous for his romantic ghazal; the subject of his sonnets is mostly about love, yet he has addressed social and political issues in his sonnets. The lover in the isolated sonnet has taken on a different face and this indicates the poet's different attitude towards the subject of love. Manzavi has a personal and special style in his descriptions, which distinguishes his poetry from other contemporary poets. In his lyrical compositions, different and dual themes can be seen around lyrical, social and religious topics and issues. In this research, the author is trying to analyze the social and related issues in isolated sonnets with descriptive-analytical method and library tools and to answer the question, what are the most important social issues used in isolated sonnets? The result of the research indicates that the poet was able to create a new language to express love in such a way that this distinction and duality of approach can be seen in his romantic sonnets.