Deviation in Iranian Poetic Literature from a Linguistic Perspective

Abstract

Poetry is broadly defined as the association of emotion and imagination in a rhythmic language. Although emotion is the most important element of poetry, it along with imagination are rhythmically represented in the language. Thus, language is one of the critical elements of poetry.  The type of poetry writing reveals what it is and how it is viewed through its first and most basic form of communication, i.e., visual communication. Classic poetry hemstitches are either in a pairwise form complying with the couplet format or in columns with continuing hemstitches under each other. However, hemstitches in New Poetry does not follow any specific and predetermined format. Deviation from the norms is a key technique used by many poets for language foregrounding and de-familiarization. This subject falls under the category of addition and omission in linguistics. In this regard, one of the most important factors contributing to the creation of literariness, whose extent can be determined according to its frequency in each work, is linguistic phonetic and syntactical domains which can be studied within the area of deviation.