Contemporary Persian Literature

Contemporary Persian Literature

New poetry: dialectics and meaning A structuralist approach to new Persian poetry Abstract

Document Type : Research Paper

10.30465/copl.2025.50630.4222
Abstract
Dialectic is an old word, which has been used throughout history and in different topics with different meanings. One of the meanings of dialectic, which is the basis of this research, is the process during which the reconciliation of opposites creates a third entity or concept. Based on this, fifteen poems by Nima and the poets after him have been examined and analyzed in the following essay. The mentioned examples have been selected from prominent poems such as "Ai Adamha" and "Zemestan", which have as much as possible poetic indicators that can be generalized to most new poems, and also include different types of social, mystical and philosophical and different styles of dialogues and introverted & extroverted monologues. Studies show that poets have used the dialectic process on a large scale for messaging and secondary meaning of speech. Although, in combining and reconciling the opposites, according to the taste and style of each poet and the necessity of the subject, they have benefited from different linguistic and semantic possibilities. Therefore, all kinds of new poems have found a similar structure based on the three pillars of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The reader's consideration in this dialectical structure can facilitate their entry into the meaning depth of the poem (synthesis) through the concept-creating and meaning-creating combination of two external pillars (thesis and antithesis).
Keywords
dialectic
structure
new poetry
meaning
symbol

Subjects

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Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 15, Issue 1
August 2025
Pages 33-60