Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 15، number In Volume 4، July 2022 ، issue Number 74

Using medical jargon as a stylistic feature of Adibolmamalek Farahani’s sociopolitical poems

Elena Mir Hosseini Vakili , Maryam Gholamreza Beigi (Author in Charge), Majid Hajizadeh

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Persian poets have long been considered the intellectuals of their society. These poets have applied the scientific jargons of their era for creating themes and concepts and expressing their opinions and thoughts. Adibolmamalek Farahani is one of these intellectuals. During the Persian Constitutional era, he was a famous poet of the Persian Literary Return Movement. In an artistic way, he used scientific jargon in his sociopolitical poems. So far, no research has focused on this characteristic as one of the main features of his poetic style. That’s why in this research project, the authors have attempted to address the usage of medical jargon in sociopolitical poems of Adibolmamalek Farahani as the stylistic feature of his poetry. This feature had a literary-scientific value and it can represent the poet’s thoughts.

METHODOLOGY: This research was conducted with a descriptive analytical method. The data was collected from the related available references related to the life, poetry, style and socio-political thoughts of Adibolmamalek Farahani as well as old and new references related to medical and pharmaceutical jargon.

FINDINGS: According to the researches on Adibolmamalek Farahani’s poetic style, some believe that his poetry represents Khorasani-Iraqi Literary School, while there are signs in his works that his poetry represents Azarbayjani Literary School too, such as extensive use of scientific jargon, patriotic emotions, sharp invectives and satires, complicated poems, complains of life. The main feature of Adibolmamalek Farahani’s style are the use of medical jargon in the service of literary techniques. To create original socio-political poems, he used so many allegories.

CONCLUSION: The results of the project indicate that although Adibolmamalek Farahani’s poems show his extensive literary knowledge, his purpose in using scientific terms (particularly medical jargon) in sociopolitical poems was not to boast about his knowledge. He used scientific and medical terms and in fact his goal was to promote a general and social vocabulary in order to convey sociopolitical concepts of his era. It seems that the use of these jargon has a satiric and eulogy function.

Keyword
Adibolmamalek Farahani , Azarbayjani Literary School , Medical Jargon , Sociopolitical poems , literary techniques

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