The Intertextual and Intratextual Analyses of Shamloo's Committed Poems of the Twenties and Thirties

In the decades twenties and thirties, the literary discourse committed to the left wing spread to a large extent through the Iranian literary community. Similarly, Ahmad Shamloo’s poetry was greatly influenced by this discourse. This study was an attempt to investigate some of Shamloo’s noticeable poems from an intertextual and sociological perspectives for their ideological quality. Next, from an intratextual perspective and based on the formalist principles, his poems were studied for their artistic and literary quality. The study had a descriptive and content analysis research design. The intertextual analysis showed that Shamloo’s poetry was totally committed to the left wing describing the political events of the time. It was found that the left ideas were the main reasons why he wrote his poems. Accordingly, he has explicitly or symbolically reflected the left discourse in his poetry to gain the attention of his readers. As for the Intratextual analysis, the results showed that he has put the main emphasis on the audience and subject using a referential and persuasive discourse. He has also focused on concrete narrative and realistic aspects at the expense of the literary one