Postmodernism and Contemporary Iranian Poetry مقاله

چکیده:

If we consider the beginning of contemporary Iranian poetry to be from the Constitutional Revolution and especially from the presentation of Nima Yooshij's innovative experience, contemporary poetry has undergone various transformations through the 2000s (the 1370s SH); such that in this relatively long period, various methods ranging from moderate to radical approaches have been tested. After the Islamic Revolution, due to the changes created in political, social, and cultural spheres, while creating doubt in the aesthetic patterns of previous decades, the search and testing of new methods gained more momentum, and young poets and even some elders, by turning away from the poetic methods of prominent pre-revolutionary poets, expressed new experiences. The postmodern poetic movement, alongside other emerging trends, has evolved since the beginning of the 2000s and continues to this day. If we consider the extreme innovations of poets such as Mohammad Moghaddam, Houshang Irani, Yadollah Royayi, and Ahmad Reza Ahmadi to be the first steps of the radical poetic experience in contemporary Iranian poetry, the experience of postmodern poets of the 2000s should be called the second step of that same movement. Poets of this trend, by relying on Western literary theories and a complete rupture from indigenous culture and the literary experiences of the classical and contemporary eras, are testing a strange and new method. Since fundamental changes in literary and artistic forms are the result of fundamental social and cultural transformations, the formation, continuity, and above all, the success of the aforementioned poetic movement remain shrouded in ambiguity. In this article, an attempt has been made to explain the general characteristics of these poets' poems with a critical eye, while analyzing the sociological causes of the emergence of this movement.