Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 19، number In Volume 1، Apeil 2026 ، issue Number 119

A Layered Stylistic Study of Rosa Jamali Poems

Zahra Khatami Kashani (Author in Charge)

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Contemporary Persian poetry in the last three decades has witnessed the emergence of poets who, by breaking away from previous linguistic and visual traditions, have created new foundations in form, meaning, and poetic experience. The poems of Rosa Jamali; a contemporary poet, operate not only at the level of language but also in the deeper layers of meaning, myth, ideology, and lived experience of femininity. In such a context, layered stylistics, as one of the new methods of text analysis, provides a suitable opportunity for a comprehensive study of Jamali"s poetry; a method that sees the text not as a single-layered body, but as a multi-level and multi-logical structure.

METHODOLOGY: The present study, based on the descriptive-analytical method, attempts to show how the phonetic, rhetorical, and ideological layers are intertwined in her poetry and what kind of new aesthetics they create.

FINDINGS: Among the research findings, it can be noted that in the phonetic layer of Rosa Jamali’s poems, the breakdown of rhythm, the shifting of accents, and situational music give the poem a discrete but fluid quality. The rhetorical layer in her poetry is based on de-familiarity, multi-conceptual metaphors, multi-focal imagery, and symbolic games. And finally, the ideological layer – which is the most important distinguishing feature of Jamali’s poetry – creates a polyphonic and protesting poem through the reinterpretation of female myths, the summoning of the body, the critique of patriarchal structures, and the recreation of female experience.

CONCLUSION: The outcome of this analysis shows that Jamali’s poetic style is the result of the simultaneous synergy of layers: that is, a style that neither begins at the level of sound nor ends at the level of rhetoric, but is a complex network of literary and ideological relationships that produce meaning in movement, rupture, reflection, and reconstruction.

Keyword
Layered stylistics , Rosa Jamali , poetic language , rhetoric , ideology.