Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mohammad Taheri ¹
• Farzad Balu ²
• GHodsiyeh Rezvanian ³
• Siavash Haghjou ²

¹ Ph. D in Persian Language and Literature, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.

² Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.

³ Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.

Abstract

Fear and anxiety are not merely psychological emotions, but are possibilities for human survival. Literature, like other human constructs and products, is also an outcome of these same possibilities. This research intends to study the encounter of the language of contemporary poetry with this very hypothesis using an analytical-descriptive method. The currents of contemporary Persian poetry grapples with fear and anxiety through two distinct linguistic approaches: the ideological language, which characterizes the Nima'i, Blank (Sepid), and Concrete movements, and the Logos of Silence, which defines the New Wave, Other, Espacement, and Pure Wave movements. When confronting the material and spiritual foundations of fear and anxiety, the former relies on the will to power and presence, producing social discourses, while the latter embraces a dialectic of peace, offering its most poetic dimension to human dwelling. By studying these two linguistic approaches, this research discerns that human history is the product of three manifestations of fear and anxiety: the fear of emptiness, the fear of the unknown, and the anguish of unfulfilled love. This triad is considered the basis of the will to power and the guarantee of presence, viewing fascism as the outcome of these wills.

Keywords

• Fear
• Anxiety
• Language
• Logos of Silence
• Zhāwān
• and Daeu-Da-Sein