Research Journal of Poetry and Story Currents in Contemporary Literature of Iran

Research Journal of Poetry and Story Currents in Contemporary Literature of Iran

The Application of Objects in the Poetry of Social Symbolism: A Comparative Study of the Long Poem "Khanevade-ye Sarbaz" by Nima Yushij and the Poem "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Zahra Lashgari
Ph.D student of Persian Language and Literature, Payam Noor University, Dubai, UAE.
10.22034/pmlj.2024.116378
Abstract
In contemporary symbolist poetry, considering objects as symbols is an effective tool for interpretation. In Social symbolism, a literary school tied to the name of Nima Yushij in Iran, the interpretability of the symbol has been used to the fullest. Poems have been composed by Nima Yushij with new concepts and with tangible, thought-provoking, and expansive objects, which can be interpreted by any reader through social, cultural, and political concepts. Among European poets, Philip Larkin is also noted as a poet who understood the adversaries of ordinary people; he is considered one of the first 20th-century European poets in whose work social and political concepts were introduced, under the inspiration of the symbolic poems of Mallarmé and Baudelaire. In this paper, which has been written using an analytical-descriptive method, the social symbols in Nima's " Khanevade-ye Sarbaz " and Larkin's "High Windows" are examined so that the poets' mental interpretations may be perceived and expanded into broader concepts. In the end, the conclusion has been reached that the symbols employed in the two works, "Khanevade-ye Sarbaz " and " High Windows," are aligned; however, Nima's poetry is found to have been composed in a manner more tangible and closer to the suffering of the people than the poetry of Larkin.
Keywords
Objects, Social Symbolism, Nima Yushij, Philip Larkin, High Windows, Khanevade-ye Sarbaz
Research Journal of Poetry and Story Currents in Contemporary Literature of Iran
Volume 3, Issue 1
September 2024
Pages 154-167