Societies in Persian literature

Societies in Persian literature

Socio-political Discourse Analysis of Fereidon Tavallali's Poem: Fardai-e Enghelab Based on the Ideological Square Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Master student of Persian language and literature, faculty of literature and foreign languages, department of Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Karaj branch, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Language, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Yazd, Iran
Abstract
Fereidon Tavallalli was one of the early enthusiasts of Nima Yooshij's innovations in Persian poetry. Tavallali was known as a semi-traditional Romantic poet in contemporary Persian poetry. In addition to his continuous political and social activities, he, as a poet and critic, sought to elaborate and explain his preferred type of poetry. Moreover, some of his poetry collections were accompanied by his introductions and notes. Tavallali's extended introduction to his Raha poetry collection was kind of the Romantic poets’ manifesto in which he acknowledged and defended new poetry and criticized old-fashioned poets and literary associations of that period. In his Raha collection, one can observe political and social poems besides the romantic verses. In the same collection, the poem: Fardaye Enghelab (The Tomorrow of Revolution) is the most famous. The present study's main goal is to examine Fardaye Enghelab according to the ideological square method and analyze the measures taken by the Tudeh-Party-affiliated poet to advance his party goals. The findings of the current study indicated that the poet mostly focused on reinforcing his strength and undermining others’ strong points. Also, he paid scant attention to his weak points and those of others. Moreover, according to this study’s findings, one can extend the four sides of the ideological square method by adding another two sides, that is, the political and social behavior of the poet in describing self and non-self forces under the six sides, thereby improving the ideological square method.
Keywords

  • Van Dijk, T. A. » Opinions and Ideologies in the Press«. in Approaches to Media Discourse. (ed.) by Bell, A. and Peter Garrett, Oxford: Blackwell. Pp: 21-63. 1993.
  • Van Dijk, T. A. »Ideology and Discourse Analysis«. Journal of Political Ideologies. 11(2). Pp: 115-140. 2006.