The Concept of Love in the Constitutional Era with Emphasis on the Poems of Mirzadeh Eshghi

Abstract

With the Constitutional Revolution, the themes that poets and writers adopted as the subject of their work underwent transformation. The style and composition of modern poetry changed in comparison with the past. Literary style is influenced by various factors such as geographical, economic, social, cultural, educational, and occupational variables. Changes in style and perspective also lead to changes in the emotional structure of that era. Thus, the concept of love was no longer confined merely to lyricism and romantic relations between men and women. This study examines the concept of love during the Constitutional Era, with an emphasis on the poems of Mirzadeh Eshghi. Eshghi’s poems serve as a complete mirror of the socio-political events of the poet’s lifetime. He approached the status of a political-social poet to a considerable degree. His relationship with society and its phenomena was fundamentally critical. Eshghi is regarded as one of the most successful romantic poets of his era. Although romanticism in his works is not devoid of lyrical elements, it is a thoroughly social and revolutionary romanticism. In Mirzadeh Eshghi’s divan, themes such as homeland, rights and justice, law, electoral freedom, and national issues constitute the core of his social poetry. At the same time, he did not disregard individual emotions; topics such as love, separation, descriptions of beauty, and the seductive turmoil caused by the beloved are among them.