Investigating Western borrowings in the imagery and theme-creation of constitutional era poetry "A case study of the poems of Malek al-Shaarai Bahar"

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Ali Ghaempanah Tajabadi ¹ , Maryam Gholamreza Beigi ² , Majid Hajizadeh Askari ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahid Haj Ghasem Soleimani University, Kerman, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University-Shahid Haj Ghasem Soleimani University, Kerman, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Shahid Haj Ghasem Soleimani University, Kerman, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-17 Accepted : 2023-09-23 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: Theme Creation, Malek al-Shaara Bahar, French vocabulary, Illustration, Russian vocabulary,

Abstract :

The constitutional era is one of the ups and downs of Iran's history, in which the results of the industrial progress of the West reached the third world countries and Iran. Therefore, researching and examining the poems of poets of this period will lead to more familiarity with the political, economic and social conditions of that era. In this research, an attempt has been made to "investigate Western vocabulary and terms in the depiction and theme-creation of the poetry of the constitutional era by means of a descriptive-analytical method and with library tools, relying on the divan of Malik al-Shaarai Bahar's poems." The findings of the research show that Bahar used imagery and thematization to express political, cultural and social themes due to familiarity with the past texts of the Persian language. In the thematic section, Bahar has used western loanwords more than other poets of his time, and in the illustration section, irony array has been used the most and he has created an image with the help of expression techniques with western words. The importance of using loan words in Diwan Bahar is that it expresses the atmosphere of cultural, political, social and economic relations between Iran and the countries of France, England and Russia. The high frequency of borrowing French words expresses political and social issues and the use of Russian words is mostly due to economic and industrial relations.