Reflection of the National Identity and its Components in the Poems of Prominent poets in the Constitutional Revolution

Moosabadi, Reza; Fakhreslam, Batul

Reflection of the National Identity and its Components in the Poems of Prominent poets in the Constitutional Revolution

Volume 20, Issue 77
Spring 2019

Pages 39-58

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Reza Moosabadi ¹

Batul Fakhreslam ²

¹ Ph.D Student in Farsi language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur Branch

² Assistant Professor, Persian Literature Department, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur Branch

Abstract

Although the events of the Constitutional Revolution affected all aspects of social life, so the poets of this era appeared as social reformers and put their poetry content to serve the development of new ideas, especially national identity and nationalism, which converted poetry from subjectivist to realistic mode. In this study, we used the descriptive-analytical method and national identity components in the poetry of the prominent poets of the Constituent of Iran has been studied and compared and four important components of national identity such as language, history and culture, land and religion in the poetry of these poets is being examinedwith the aim of providing a relatively comprehensive view. Finally, it was concluded that among the components of national identity in the poetry of the Constitutionalist poets, the most component observed in the poetry, attention to the land and the homeland, and the smallest component of the national identity, is language, but o due to the presence History and struggle against colonialism among constitutionalist poets, the religion of Islam was have been considered as one of the elements of national identity; hence, national identity and Iranian nationalism, contrary to the European type, were not only anti-religious, but also religious.

Keywords

Contemporary Literature

National Identity

Constitutionalism

Persian Poetry