Document Type : Scientific extension
Authors
1 M.A. in Art Research, Tehran University of Art
2 Assistant Professor in Art Philosophy, Tehran University of Art
Abstract
In Persian poetry, the issue of form has gone through so many alterations. In the last decades and after the emergence of Modern Persian poetry, these formal changes have been more significant and controversial. One of the latest noteworthy theories in Persian contemporary poetry has been proposed by Reza Baraheni in Accosting the Butterflies. In the theoretical section titled “Why I Am No Longer a Nimaie Poet?” the author claims that Modern Persian poetry has been beset with a crisis and attempts to find a solution by discussing the flaws in Persian free verse and blank verse poems. In this book, poems and theories are inspired by postmodernism and other western literary theories such as formalism and deconstruction, and the ideas of “languagality,” “polyphonic poetry,” “adoption of sound and breath,” and “narrative interruption” are introduced to Persian poetry for the first time. By reviewing Barahani’s poetic form in various periods of his career and studying the impacts of postmodernism on his ideas, the present paper aims to analyze Baraheni’s latest theories on poetic form and to present a new classification for the formal characteristics of Accosting the Butterflies.
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