Figures of Speech in Modern Poetry

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

2 Ph.D. Persian languages and literature, Modares University.

Abstract

Figures of speech have been considered by many of poets and writers since many years ago. Despite obvious differences that happened in the rhyme and rhythm’ Modern poetry and it’s emotion and epigrams with the past and Nima’s explicit statements based on the inefficiency of Badi, the presence of figures of speech in the Modern poetry cannot ignore.
The study of Badi in the poems of four contemporary poets shows that figures of speech in the Modern poetry have lost its artificial aspect and have emerged in natural form and based on a variety of the association.
What is in this field in their poetry more seen that group of the figures of diction which they have effective function in creation cohesion moreover verbal music.
The figures of thought are not a lot in modern poetry. The cases where are seen often in this part base on antithesis and taxis. In this paper the differences between modern poetry and classical poetry is expressed and figures of speech in examples of poems’ mentioned poets are studied and compared with each other

Keywords