Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 15، number In Volume 6، September 2022 ، issue Number 76

Investigating the movement of contemporary Ashura poetry from elegy to epic

Masoud Saadati , Mohammad Reza Roozbeh (Author in Charge), Safieh Moradkhani , Ali Nouri

Abstract

ACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Background and objectives­: Ashura poetry has always been the strongest branch of religious poetry in different eras. Despite the fact that the issue of Ashura is suitable for design in various fields and subjects, often in this type of Persian poetry withMatmazdeh looks at repetitive and monotonous concepts, which have been influenced by various factors, including social and political conditions.In the last century, many changes have taken place in Persian poetry, although Ashura poetry in the early decadesAnd especially in the first Pahlavi period, it was not accompanied by these changes, but gradually and cautiously, it experienced unprecedented changes.This study, while examining the content and type of attitude of poets towards Ashura themes in the three periods of the first Pahlavi, the second Pahlavi and after the Islamic Revolution, to the why and how of these developmentsWith the focus on the movement of Ashura poetry, it has turned from elegy to epic.

METHODOLOGY: This research has been done by content analysis method and using library method in collecting information.

FINDINGS: The study and evaluation of contemporary Ashura poems shows that Ashura poetry in the first Pahlavi period was completely mourning and with a mournful look and with limited and repetitive topics. In the second Pahlavi period, while preserving the previous themes, it moves towards change in some cases, but after the revolution, Ashura poetry encounters completely new horizons and distances itself from the repetition of the past, and with an epic and authoritarian look at Extensive Ashura topics are covered

CONCLUSION: The result of this study shows that the desire to move from mourning to epic in Ashura poetry, from the forties and simultaneously with the emergence of the discourse of resistance and struggle and the spread of religious modernism, the beginning and after the Islamic Revolution to Especially with the start of the imposed war has reached its peak­

Keyword
Ashura poetry , elegy , epic , contemporary poetry

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