Fazel Asadi Amjad; Mohammad Reza Rowhanimanesh
Abstract
Nima Youshij, the founder of modern Persian poetry, composed several poems challenging conventional Persian meters, forms and contents. He manipulated rhyme, rhythm, and length of a verse. Similarly, Walt Whitman, the father of free verse in American literature, published Leaves of Grass to challenge ...
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Nima Youshij, the founder of modern Persian poetry, composed several poems challenging conventional Persian meters, forms and contents. He manipulated rhyme, rhythm, and length of a verse. Similarly, Walt Whitman, the father of free verse in American literature, published Leaves of Grass to challenge conventional forms and contents of poetry. They both showed resistance and questioned dominant literary discourses of their time in order to make their voices heard. This can be interpreted from the point of view of Cultural Materialism. Allan Sinfield, a notable figure amongst cultural materialists, suggests dissident reading of texts and talks over faultlines in texts that challenge dominant discourses. This study argues that the difference between the poet’s voice and the ruling literary discourse of the era depicts faultlines in such a discourse and thus challenges it.
