In antiquity, the relationship between “music”, “poetry”, and “language” was very different from the way they relate to each other today, for back then each of these mediums was endowed with a distinct, independent signifying code expressing a semiosis all its own. However, these separate “semiospheres” nonetheless never ceased growing towards and into one another. This is so because music and ...

One of the oldest and most pleasant and efficient kinds of poetry, which have attracted the attention of scholars and lovers of poetry since the beginning of the Persian poetry until now, is elegy. Khaghani Shervani is one of the poets who wrote after this genre and composed many memorable and beautiful elegies. The poet, who like many other people experienced happy and sad events and occasions...

In his article "Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry" the debate on hybridization tends to overemphasize the blurring of boundari types in all possible forms: combination of types within a given work (multimodal "image comics and photo-novels, sound poetry, etc.), adaptation and remediation one (filmic adaptations of novels or novelizations of films, for instance), and, more generall...