Nature Song in Saadi and Petrarch’s Poems: A Comparative Study

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant professor, Italian language and Literature Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran. Tehran-IRAN

2 phd student in persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Arak, IRAN

3 Assistant professor in Persian Language, Islamic Azad University, Arak, IRAN

4 assistant professor in Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Arak - IRAN

Abstract

This is a comparative study between two great poets who belong in reality to very different cultures but under a very specific point of view their poems can be easily analyzed with a textual critical approach to understand where and how the two treat the Nature as a very important element of their poems. Here we try to analyze Saadi’s love poem and Petrarch’s sonnets from the point of view of the natural elements used by the two poets in their verses. Saadi, a great poet of love, and Petrarch father of humanism, use nature and its various elements not only to describe their own state of mind, but also to emphasize the beauty of their loved one. At the first sight, usage of nature made by the two poets appears identical; however, with a more precise analytical study, we realize some points of divergence at the level of poetic conception that exists in the two poetry collections. So, knowing poetic traditions and very different linguistic styles bring us closer to poetic cultures far from our poetic traditional already known for its lyricism. This is a factor that helps enrich our in-depth cultural knowledge. The research method adopted is descriptive and analytical with a comparative approach between the two selected corpuses.

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