Investigation of Signs of Growth and Decline in SiminBehbahani’s Poetry (on the Basis of Eric Fromm’s Theory)
Subject Areas : journal of literary criticism and stylistics research
Keywords: Psychology criticism, Eric Fromm, SiminBehbahani, sign of growth, Decline,
Abstract :
Literature is the result of individual and collective psyche which controlled by unconscious and conscious of individual and social psychology. So by looking at the literary works, psychological aspects of individual and community are better known. The fundamental question is to show how signs of growth and decline are materialized in the symbolic language of poetry. The purpose is to find signs of growth (love) and contrast it with signs of decline (love of death) in SiminBehbahani's collection of poems. It is a library research. This paper investigates the signs of growth and decline in Simin's poetry.