Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 2، May 2025 ، issue Number 108

Paradox in Afshin Yadollahi's poems

Zahra Abolghasemi , Maryam Shadmohammadi (Author in Charge), Naeimeh Kialashki , Vajiheh Torkamani

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The paradox is made from a collection of inconsistencies and contradictions, and it is different and more complicated than the contrast industry. Poems of Afshin Yadollahi, a contemporary poet and songwriter, are one of the best and most suitable platforms for studying and examining the contradictory types of contemporary poetry. Yadollahi"s poetry is so mixed with apparent contradictions that it can be considered the main characteristic of his poetic style. The use of this method of expression is not only an obstacle to the process of the text, but also makes it fluent and eloquent and adds to its richness. In this research, this poet"s poetry has been examined from the point of view of quality and contradictory types of visualization.

METHODOLOGY: The present study was prepared and organized in a descriptive-analytical way to investigate the paradox of scene-making in Afshin Yadollahi"s poems in three main categories: "linguistic construction, literary construction, and content construction".

FINDINGS: Yadollahi has used documental contrastive more than its combined type in linguistic contractiveness. In the literary sector, he mostly uses the relationship of contradiction between words, but besides that, industries such as simile, metaphor, allusion, sensationalism and irony are also significantly used in creating contradictory images. In the content section, he has used three types of conventional, religious and abstract paradoxes, and these paradoxes in his poetry often show a mystical color of love.

CONCLUSION: In Yadollahi"s poems, contradictory concepts or words have been created from the combination of many contradictory concepts and a kind of contradictory concept flow in the whole poem, which can be considered as one of the unique features of Yadollahi"s poetry style. In general, the paradox in Yadollahi"s poems, while being simple and exploiting the contrast between concrete, common and superficial words, still has the characteristics of innovation, surprise and complexity. He has represented complex concepts based on ontology and self-knowledge in the form of simple and understandable contradictory views for the audience.

Keyword
rhetoric , paradox , paradox , contemporary poetry , Afshin Yadollahi

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