Title: War and Peace in Children’s and Adolescent Poetry of the 80s and 90s
Student: Masoumeh Moradi
Supervisor: Dr. Kavous Hassanali
Advisor: Dr. Fatemeh Gholami
Shiraz University, Iran
مقطع کارشناسی ارشد
Field: Persian Language and Literature
Defense date: Summer 2017
Abstract
Children’s and young people’s poetry experienced one of its main periods of development in the 1980s and 1990s. According to some researchers, one of the distinguishing aspects of the content of this movement in the post-war years was the focus on themes centered on war or, in contrast, peace in children’s poetry. And he is a teenager.
In this research, after studying 210 books (containing 1518 poems) by ten poets from the 1980s and 1990s, 238 poems in which themes of war and peace are expressed in some way were extracted and examined in five main chapters using content analysis.
In the first and second chapters, the generalities and theoretical foundations of the research are discussed, and in the third chapter, the reflection of the concept of war and peace in children’s and adolescents’ poetry of these two decades is analyzed and introduced; then, in the fourth chapter, the artistic representation of these two concepts in poetry is analyzed, and finally, The results of the research are presented in the fifth chapter.
The results of this research show that the poets of these two decades, in addressing the two concepts of war and peace, mostly focused on themes such as: describing military conflicts in Iran, especially during the war, liberation movements with an emphasis on the Islamic Revolution, and religious wars, especially They have paid attention to Ashura, family conflicts, communication tensions between children and society, animal conflicts, and the retelling of ancient legends, or they have presented concepts opposite to the aforementioned themes in their poems with a peace-oriented perspective. They also use similes, distinctions, and Animalism and the use of various symbols are the most important tools for artistically creating concepts of war and peace in children’s and adolescent poetry of the 1980s and 1990s.
