volume Number 9، number In Volume 2، Summer 2016 ، issue Number 32

A Survey and Critique of Children and Adolescents Contemporary Poetry in Iran

A.Zabihnia Emran , H.bardkhouni (Author in Charge), ...

Abstract

It is very difficult to produce poetry appropriate for the needs and perception of today’s aware children and adolescents. Children and adolescents poetry is a kind of conceptual and audience-oriented poetry whose area of concepts and themes is as wide as the life and imagination of every child and adolescent. Sentiment, imagination, curiosity, rhythm, and happiness are among the most important characterisitics of this kind of literature. After the Constituitional Revolution and during this century, many poets has endeavored and extended its prosperity. But, there is still a conspicuous gap between the existing works and what they ought to be. A children’s poet should not observe the children in the world around them, but, he or she should observe the world and everything in it from today’s thinking children’s point of view and help them build up a world full of peace and friendship. Meanwhile, with respect to the children and adolescents’ limited perception it is not possible to use verbal and conceptual figures of speech; instead, it is necessary to observe other criteria for their works to be accepted. In this paper, an attempt is made to thoroughly enumerate these criteria and then, to analyze and criticize the existing works.

Keyword
Children and adolescents poetry , Conceptual poetry , Criteria of poetry , Constitutional Revolution , Contemporary poetry