The Language of Death and Bare Life: Revisiting Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poetry

Death is a timeless subject which has occupied the minds of human beings throughout their far-reaching history, and scholars and writers have dealt with this subject in their own ways. In contemporary Persian poetry, death has an imposing presence, a good many modernist poets have tried to tame this wild subject in their artistic work, especially the poets who were writing during the period from the 1953 Iranian coup to the very beginning of the 1970s, when a degree of social peace and prosperity began to shine on the whole nation. An influential poet who was active at the first half of this period was Forugh Farrokhzād (1934-1967), who believed that every human being discovers the secret of their individuality in the mirror of their death, and it is in the face of death that they mature

Arhetip sjene u romanu Yusef’s Days and Nights Mahmuda Dowlatabadija

The present article studies Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Yusef ’s Days and Nights and attempts to provide a different reading of the novel through the application of C. G. Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious and archetypes. From Jung’s perspective, the collective unconscious is the reservoir of psychic energy and the source of all human memories; also, the archetypes are universal mental structures the recognition of which becomes possible through the symbolic interpretation of dreams, fantasies, myths, and rituals. “Shadow” is one of the most important archetypes that, according to Jung, is the dark half of our being. This shadow is our alter-ego, and it is only when we accept it as a part of our being that we can achieve psychic equilibrium and complete the process of individuation. The process of individuation, and indeed of the conscious mind’s coming to terms with the ‘self,’ usually begins with suffering. Although this initial shock is not often recognized, it is a kind of summoning. However, Yusef (the protagonist of the novel) follows the path of denial and his projections of his fears and anxieties gradually make the distinction between illusion and reality difficult for him. Therefore, the confrontation with theshadow, although difficult and perhaps horrifying, is a necessary step on the road towards mental and psychical maturity.Rad iščitava roman Yusef ’s Days and Nights Mahmouda Dowlatabadija kroz prizmu teorija C. G. Junga o kolektivnome nesvjesnom i arhetipovima. Iz Jungove perspektive, kolektivno nesvjesno spremište je psihičke energije i izvor svih ljudskih uspomena, a arhetipovi su univerzalne mentalne strukture čije prepoznavanje omogućava simboličko tumačenje snova, maštarija, mitova i rituala. „Sjena“ je među ključnim arhetipovima te, prema Jungu, mračna polovica ljudskoga bića. Ona je alter-ego i tek nakon što je čovjek prihvati kao dio svojega bića, postaje moguće postići psihičku ravnotežu i zaključiti proces individuacije. Proces individuacije, kao i pomirenja svjesnoga uma sa „sobom“, obično započinje patnjom. Iako se taj početni šok vrlo često ne prepoznaje, on je svojevrsni poziv. Međutim, protagonist romana Yusef u stanju je poricanja, a projekcije njegovih strahova i strepnji postupno mu otežavaju razlikovanje iluzije i stvarnosti, iz čega proizlazi da je suočavanje sa sjenom, premda teško i zastrašujuće, nužan korak na putu prema duševnoj i psihičkoj zrelosti

Reading Sense in Verse: Synesthesia in the Poetry of Edith Sitwell and Houshang Ebtehaj

Synesthesia, among other rhetorical devices, has played a prominent role in conveying the intended messages in the realm of poetry. Nonetheless, it has not grabbed adequate attention to its nature and function. Belonging to the domain of comparative literature, this essay has benefitted from analogy studies as its methodology to render novel perspectives in the meaning and reading of the poetry of Sitwell and Ebtehaj. Here, we have attempted, firstly, to foreground the function of synesthesia and, secondly, to enrich the understanding of the mentioned poets. This paper concludes that the realization of synesthesia heavily and helpfully affects the perception of literary poems. In addition, to showcase such influence, a reasonable number of poems by Sitwell and Ebtehaj were subjected to scrutiny, indicating that a great deal of their poetry is best understood only after investigating synesthesia. This essay is merely concentrated on two poets, yet its findings can be helpful for the whole field of poetry

Poetry of Epiphany: James Wright and Sohrab Sepehri

This paper’s aim is to present a comparative study of the poetry of the American James Arlington Wright and the Persian Sohrab Sepehri in order to examine the main ground of convergence in their poetry, which is epiphany or sudden revelation of truth. This revelation is mostly informed by intuitive, as opposed to logical, thinking and a mystical union with nature and natural elements. The poetic art of both Sepehri and Wright precisely consists in reminding the readers of the necessity of redefining and reconstructing the self through an awakening based on spiritual moments. In both Sepehri and Wright, the magic moments are presented through epiphany whose mission is to alert the soul to the absence/presence of what matters, and to the ways of dealing with the problem

2015 Research & Innovation Day Program

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