Book contents
- Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in World Literature
- Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I Crafting a Modernist Geography across Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Part II Imagining New Worlds
- Part III Aftermath
- Chapter 5 Honoring Commitments
- Chapter 6 Winter in the Modernist Garden
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Winter in the Modernist Garden
Furūgh Farrukhzād’s Posthumous Poetry and the Death of Modernism
from Part III - Aftermath
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
- Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Cambridge Studies in World Literature
- Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I Crafting a Modernist Geography across Arabic and Persian Poetry
- Part II Imagining New Worlds
- Part III Aftermath
- Chapter 5 Honoring Commitments
- Chapter 6 Winter in the Modernist Garden
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In this final chapter, I analyze Furūgh Farrukhzād’s innovative development of Nīmā’s earlier prosodic experiments and link Farrukhzād’s late modernist poetic project with Western modernist poetry. My purpose in avoiding lengthy comparisons with Western poetry up to this point in the book is to provincialize European poetic modernism and consider instead the significant links in poetic forms, themes, and politics that were more important for the elaboration of modernism in the Arab and Iranian contexts. However, I also readily admit that Western poetic influence plays a significant role in the Arab and Iranian modernists’ approaches to poetry. I thus take the opportunity in this last chapter to address Farrukhzād’s work not only in the context of local poetic connections, but also in light of the bonds she forged with Western modernist poetry. In so doing, I argue that Farrukhzād’s poetic persona is best understood as a flâneuse, the female Iranian counterpart to Charles Baudelaire’s Parisian poetic persona. I furthermore undertake a lengthy analysis of the close associations between Farrukhzād’s late poetry and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and “The Hollow Men,” from 1925.
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- Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry , pp. 143 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022