A Comparative Study of Primitivism & City Estrangement in Sepehri and Hijazi ‘s Poetry

زبان و ادبیات عربی

Article 3, Volume 4, Issue 6, October 2012   

Document Type: research article

DOI: 10.22067/jall.v4i6.16281

Abstract

The contemporary Persian and Arabic literature have an old relationship and in this age and the same relationship is also said about city poetry domain .Seemingly the appearance of new city songs in world literature including Persian and Arabic literature is affected by Western literature. The present research compares Sohrab Sepehri ‘s city songs in Persian literature and Ahmad Abd al- Mo’ti Hijazi’s songs of the same motif in Arabic literature.
To conduct a comprehensive study, and after a brief explanation around two poets ’life and poetry as well as about the theme of primitivism and romanticism and their principles ,the paper reviews Sepehri and Hijazi’s poetry in this fields and studies their tendency towards primitivism and romanticism .
The most important dimensions which are notable in the poetry or life domain of both poets are as follows: expression of regret and nostalgia due to the loss of the countryside innocence , reproaching city and its urbaneness image, worshipping countryside and the first man home land where man has been longing for during all ages and the desire of having real or imaginative journey .
The last part of the research is devoted to the poetic characteristics of explanation and description of primitivism and romanticism in both poets’ poetry.

Keywords

city; Sepehri; Hijazi; contemporary Persian/Arabic poetry; primitivism