The Relationship between Symbolism and Utopian Thought in Nima’s Poetry
Subject Areas : Research in Theoritical Politics
1 - Professor of Political Science, Tarbiat Modares University
Keywords: Nima Youshij ideal situation symbolism social thought,
Abstract :
Nima’s especial understanding of poetry and the poets’ status has a normative signification that results in depicting a kind of utopian vision in his poems. Stressing “imagination” in poetry, Nima like European symbolists, makes closeness and sameness between poetry and truth, and then between the position of poet as poet and seer or clairvoyant. Such a closeness resulting in rejection of the present disorder, and offering an ideal world, is in line with the concept of ideology in political thought. In this way, Nima’s specific understanding of poetry gives way to a utopian thought that is known as the most obvious manifestation of social thought in his poetry.