Poetry is rarely a focus of linguistic investigation. This is far from surprising, as poetic language, especially in modern and contemporary literature, seems to defy the general rules of syntax and semantics. This paper assumes, however, that linguistic theories should ideally be able to account for creative uses of language, down to their most difficult incarnations. It proposes that at the s...

pessimism, a phenomenon of deep effect over the contemporary poetry, both arabic and persian, usually enjoys a widespread usage in the periods of social, political and economic disorders which, in turn, affect the poets’ views and change their visions toward the real. elias abu-shabaka and hushang ebtehaj are the poets of a modern disorderly era and environment. they both display a deep pessimi...

literature is the reflection of a poet's mind and feelings affected by the world around him. the poet experiences and feels the incidents and expresses them in a language so as to make the reader share those feelings with him. a great part of persian literature is devoted to poets' resistance against attacks on national, human and cultural values. this study aims at examining tahereh ...

qeysar aminpour (1959-2007) is one of the outstanding figures in contemporary persian poetry. one of the prominent aspects of his poetic style is the distinct language of his poems in the three areas of lexicon, compositions and syntax. relying on these three areas, this study attempted to investigate the most important linguistic features of his poetry in order to figure out special style of t...

we have now at hand two editions of onsori’s divan , none of them is ideal. this is clauesd, first of all by the corruption of the manuscripts. this article attempts to examine and rectify a number of verses of onsori’s divan which have not been correctly recorded by the editors of the divan in any of its two main editions; the 1st by yahya gharib, edited in 1341 s.h., and the 2nd by mohammad d...