Components of Modenism in Taqi Rafàt’s Poetry

Abstract

Constitutionist and nationalist intellectuals were the first group that discussed modernism in literature theoretically, emphasizing the necessity of literary modernism, based on their political and social ideas. The movement of literary modernism came to develop and two movments of literary medernim, the conservatist and radical movements, appeared. Taqi Rafàt was one of the prominent writers and poets in the radical movement. This research studies components of modernism in Rafàt’s poetry from three points of view: the style of expression, identity of the sender and the receiver and their relation, and the subject, and attempts to answer the questions that what aspects of modernism are in Rafàt’s poetry and what relationship is between modernist instances in his poetry and his contemporary modernist social and political movements. Study of his poetry shows that there are prominent aspects of modernism in his poetry from the three points of view and so modernism could be known as the centre component in it. These modern aspects have a dialectical relationship with social and political modernism, of wich the Iranian nationalism movement and the Constitutionism movement were supporters.

Keywords

• modernism
• rafàt
• constitutionism
• iranian nationalism