How Do Poets Contemplate in Poetic Space?

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate Professor, Persian language and literature, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

The poetry refers to something which can’t be stated and can’t basically be described in the form of prose and prose poetry. In fact, it is not translatable, but it is interpretable. Some poets try to write poems to describe ideas, issues or events that they have in their mind. We call this kind of poets, poets of events. So we thought that what has been written in such manner can be placed in scope of allegory, not poetry, because poetry is a kind of symbol. In this context, hermeneutics (interpretation of text) that can be imposed on religious works also are used in poetry. So any kind of reading of poems is a new symbol which is added to poetry system. External events in dealing with poet’s experiences are reflected in his mind and influence his experiences and tendencies. It is an unconscious process, so the events are translated to language by poet re-expression. Expression of outer motives by poet is not intentional. Such expression is performed unconsciously based on his worldview. Whenever a poem is constructed and completed in his mind and his unconscious, it is born in the form of words. In this paper we try detect how poet (and not the moderator) contemplates in poetic space. We believe that the order is an individual product and poetry is social one. It means that in poetry, artist’s individuality is dissolved in collective identity. In other words, the order means thinking singly and poetry means thinking collectively.

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