Comparing the symbols of freedom in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish and Caesar Aminpour

Abstract

One of the most important topics dealt with in contemporary Arabic poetry and world literature as a whole is the issue of freedom. Freedom came in literary works in many ways and under many headings, including the use of symbols denoting freedom. This came to expand meanings and concepts and consolidate some of the ideas contained in that symbol, especially Concerning the literature of the resistance. The use of symbols expanded in the poetry of resistance, and the reason for that was the closure of the suppressed and occupied society, and the government’s failure to allow freedom of expression, so poets resorted to symbolic language. Among these poets, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, and the Iranian poet, Caesar Aminpour, came with symbols to express freedom, trying to spread their hopes in society to consolidate the spirit of freedom in the people. The two poets struggled through symbolic poetry with the bitter reality that tightened the screws on society. This research seeks to study the symbols of freedom and how to employ them in the poetry of these two poets, who sang many poems on freedom, and this will be done through the descriptive and analytical approach. The result of this research is that the poets used various symbols to express freedom such as flight, the bird, the mother-in-law, the butterfly and martyrdom to call people to freedom and form the spirit of struggle in them so that they proceed in the ways of struggle that they dealt with in their poetry. What brings the two poets closer together is the spirit of struggle and the political and social conditions that the two poets lived through