A comparative study of "Creating God" in Adunis & Shamlou’s Poetry

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Department of Persian language and literature, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

10.22059/jor.2024.368597.2482

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Common cultural contexts, political and social unrest, and the spread of Western philosophical thought at some point in the contemporary history of Iran and the Arab world have led to common themes in contemporary Persian and Arabic poetry. One of these common themes is a theme called "creating God", which was formed under the influence of one of the fundamental ideas of Western philosophy (death of God). In this article, the author examines the similarities of this theme in the poetry of two prominent contemporary poets of Iran and the Arab world, namely Shamlou and Adunis, and shows its common roots in Western philosophy. The similarities in the poetry of Adonis and Shamlou in expressing this theme with the ideas of philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre indicate their direct influence on the works of these two famous Western philosophers, especially books such as The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951). The difference is that Adunis was influenced by both Nietzsche and Sartre, but Shamlou was more inclined to Sartre. Another thing is that this theme is a cross-sectional and transient theme in Adunis's poetry, which can be seen in his work, Aghani Mihyar al-Dimashqi (1961); But Shamlou has used this theme in most of his poetry books.

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 30, Issue 1
March 2025
Pages 67-86

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