“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

An Analysis of the Content Components of Death Satire in Shamloo's Poetry

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
حسین سلیمی 1
masoud kazerani 2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.
2 Master's student, Sustainability Literature, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.
Abstract
One of the most important functions of satire is its humor. When satire is used in relation to noble and tragic concepts such as death and nothingness, it moves away from its basic functions, such as making people laugh, being easy to understand, and making the audience think, etc., and becomes bitter and tragic. Death, as one of the main concerns of humanity, has sometimes been used as a form of humor in literature. In this study, death, as a humorous and derisive theme, has been analyzed in the poems of Ahmad Shamloo. In this article, the satire of death is analyzed as a bridge to identify Shamloo's transgression in expressing the issue of death in his poetry, and the components are extracted from his poems, which include: carelessness and taking death lightly, satire with contempt for life, change in the function of death, mockery of death, mockery of life, human being is more deserving of life in this world, and the certainty of death and giving it authenticity. What makes this research important is the miraculous fusion of two tragic and serious categories, namely death and life, in the guise of humor by Shamloo.
Keywords
satire
death
tragic satire
Ahmad Shamloo
Subjects
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“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”
Volume 5, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9
Spring and Summer 2026
April 2026
Pages 135-154