Abstract An extended period of public mourning followed the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, one South Korea’s largest maritime disasters which resulted in over three hundred passenger deaths. This article examines leading contemporary Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s narration collective trauma her elegy for dead, Chugŭmŭi chasajŏn (Autobiography Death, 2016). Drawing on oral tradition, particularly songs ...

stylistic is a branch of modern linguistic which surveys and analyzes the literary styles and technical methods. formalism school is one of important modern approaches in stylistics. russian formalisms believe that only the style (frame) can determine the meaning and the concept of the context. mahmoud darvish – palestinian poet – is one of the poets who worked in modernism style. he could pres...

commitment to social issues of human being is a dominant theme in contemporary poetry which introduces poets to the history who make an attempt to depict social concepts and solve the problems of society. abd al-wahhab al-bayyati and mehdi akhavan sales are two prominent poets who move along this atmosphere. they live in two communities with similar social conditions. due to common beliefs and ...

yahyaal-samawi, iraqi poet, is one of the most prominent figures of resistance literature and contemporary arabic poetry. al-samawi defended his motherland with his poems, and in this course he went through torture, adversary, and moving out of his land. he started writing his resistance poems during ba’athist rule in iraq under saddam. he played an important role in opposing saddamists’ misgui...

this study aims to examine how the poetry of mamduh udvan was affected by quranic inspirations and show how the high language and noble meanings of the quran enhanced the modern poetry to artistic levels. this search for inspiration in udvan’s poetry has different manifestations examples of which are provided at two levels in this article: 1) lexical levels in which the poet resort to quranic l...

irony is a mysterious communicative language between writer and reader and among its beauties, brevity and oddity and duality of meaning can be referred to. so it is considered as one of the best means of interpretation in an indirect way to reform society. this article elaborates on irony in terms of language and terminology with emphasis on the most important available works in this area. the...

some thoughts and events are of a prominent position in human life as if they lead human to insistence and repetition by becoming a part of his concerns and at last they represent themselves as an individual and permanent feature in his conscious and unconscious. but permanent repetition of the mentioned imagery represents a subject  of whose reality there is no information available under norm...

qaisar aminpour is a post-revolution prominent poet who has composed poems in different fields and verse forms. he has composed 445 adult poems in five collections, the analysis of which seems necessary for gaining an exact understanding of the trend of the post-revolution poetry. in this article, the author, studying the titles of qaisar's poems in his five books, has tried to offer a new read...