Death and death thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry with the approach of existential philosophy and psychology (Case study: Nima Yoshij, Ahmad Shamlou and Mahdi AkhawanSales)

Abstract

Background: Death and death thoughts in contemporary Iranian poetry (with the approach of existential philosophy and psychology) in the context of the compositions of three of Iran's prominent contemporary speakers, namely: Nima Yoshij, Ahmad Shamlou and Mehdi AkhawanSales, form the research field. Aims: The main purpose of this research is to show the views of three of the most prominent poets of the last century in Iran on the issue of death (and consequently life) based on the mentioned view (originality of existence). Methods: This research is based on analytical-descriptive method (and based on library sources). Results: What was obtained from the search is that: the poems of all three poets of the research community of this research, with an existential approach and thinkers such as: Jean-Paul Sartre, Erwin D. Yalom, Martin Heidegger, Baines Wanger, Viktor Frankl, etc. can be read and each of these three people call parts of the components of existentialist philosophy and psychology. Nima, the AkhawanSales and Shamlou have been influenced by the socio-political atmosphere of the current era to existentialism or the existential view, with the difference that Nima and Shamlou sometimes show the positive and sometimes negative components of the existentialists in their words, but in the end, in the confrontation They have acted with "genuine" death and survived its terror by believing in "ideal death". Akhawan, although he also praised the ideal life, but he did not look favorably on death - in any of its forms - and he saw knowledge as unable to understand this issue. Conclusion: In the examination of the poems of Nima, Shamlou, and the AkhawanSales, there are strong signs of attachment to life; However, regarding death, the words of these three contemporary writers are not the same everywhere, in the sense that they are sometimes influenced by an existential perspective such as the "throwing" of man into the world, they do not give a purpose to life and consequently death, and sometimes they are influenced by The semanticism of the mentioned belief praises ideal death and does not consider it the end of the road. In the meantime, of course, the original approach to death in Nima and Shamlou's poetry is more dominant than that of the AkhawanSales

Keywords

• death thought
• contemporary iranian poetry
• existential philosophy and psychological approach