Components of an ideal society in contemporary Iranian poetry (with a case study of selected poems of Malek Alshoara Bahar and Ahmad Shamloo)

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1 Department of Persian Language and Literature. Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.

2 , Department of Persian Language and Literature. Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran.(Corresponding Author)

Abstract

The ideal society (utopia) has been a historical and very long-standing dream of mankind, since the beginning of human urbanization until today, and in the realization of this dream, each of different classes of society - regardless of language, color, race, etc.- is concerned about human happiness and material and spiritual well-being, takes a pen or a step, in their power, so as to be a strong barrier against the deviance and the false currents that have always sought their own benefit in disorder and chaos. In the meantime, committed and idealistic writers and speakers have not remained silent and with their taste and ingenuity, while denouncing filth and vulgarity, lead society towards desirable and positive perspectives such as: justice and equality, law and order, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and things like that have come as a guide. On this basis, the present paper through content analysis studies the poems of two of the well-known traditional and modern Iranian poets called: Malek Alshoara Bahar and Ahmad Shamloo, and Shows the reader the ideal characteristics of the human they are interested in and emphasize in their works. In this comparison, what has been achieved in a nutshell is that: Bahar, as a politician and a wise writer, seeks to build an independent, free and modern Iran - based on national and spiritual rites and symbols. Shamloo also continues the path of Bahar towards idealistic and modernist goals,

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Available Online from 11 September 2022

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