“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

A discussion on the relationship between concrete poetry and visual arts and a critical analysis of Mohammad Ali Sepanlu's concrete poems

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Maku Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maku, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Maku Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maku, Iran.
Abstract
Poetry has always borrowed things from other arts for beauty and impact; it borrowed the rhythm from the art of music and tried to approach music; From the techniques of performing arts in order to approach the art of performance and from painting in order to visualize and objectify concepts. The poetry flow of concrete poetry, which is also known by other name visual poetry was formed in the early 20th century in Europe under the influence of visual arts,cubism and imagism. This type of poetry aims to approach the art of painting, and the poet tries to present many concepts in a visual form, in the form of paintings and images, by using the visual possibilities of writing. Contemporary Iranian poets, inspired by this poetry movement. The reason for the tendency towards this movement lies in its artistic nature;Because art aims at perfection in deep structure and surface structure, and visual poetry, in addition to beauty and listening pleasure, also has visual beauty and an effort to create harmony between the theme and the form of writing. In Sepanlu's poems, we can see beautiful examples of concrete poems. By visualizing the poems, he has sought to convey and induce concepts and create harmony between the theme and the visual body of the poem. The necessity of the present research comes from the fact that so far no research has focused on the visual effects of Sepanlu's poems. The current research aims to analyze Sepanlu's concrete poems with descriptive-analytical method.
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