Abstract:
In this article, a different perspective from what others have previously examined in the Divan of Shahriar is presented. Using a descriptive-analytical method, administrative terms related to Shahriar's periods of employment at two institutions, namely Bank Keshavarzi and the Department of Document and Property Registration, have been extracted and interpreted. In some instances, reference is made to the artistic aspects of verses that have created fresh themes and novel, lasting images through the use of administrative vocabulary and terminology; at the same time, there has been no hesitation in presenting verses where the use of these terms may have impacted the poetic quality of the poet's words.
Machine summary:
Using a descriptive-analytical method, administrative terms related to Shahriar's periods of employment in two institutions, the Agricultural Bank and the Deeds and Properties Registration Office, have been extracted and interpreted.
In some cases, reference has also been made to the artistic aspects of verses in which, through the use of administrative vocabulary and terminology, novel themes and original, lasting images have been created; at the same time, there has been no hesitation in presenting verses where the use of these terms has harmed the poetic nature of the poet's words.
Shahriar has utilized these everyday administrative terms with such skill and mastery in various poetic forms, including ghazal, qasida, qit'a, and masnavi, and has created from them novel, beautiful, and sometimes heartbreaking and poignant themes and images that leave one in awe.
"Dastgheib," regarding Shahriar's power of thematic creation and imagery, believes: "In the modernization of Persian poetry and the change of vocabulary, expressions, meters, and their instances, Iraj Mirza, the love-born, the Royal Poet of Spring, Nima Yushij, Parvin Etesami, and Mohammad Hossein Shahriar have each contributed according to their share and work.
Discussion Shahriar is proficient in employing administrative terms related to the Department of Registration of Deeds and Properties, as well as specialized banking terms, and he seeks benefit from these terms not only in the forms of Masnavi, Qit'ah, and Qasida, and in modes of description and satire, but also utilizes this possibility in ghazals, serious poetry, and descriptions of states.
In Shahriar's poetry, more than a hundred administrative terms related to banking and the registration of deeds and properties have been used, which briefly include: notification (Vol. 1, p.