Pictorial Poetry in Persian and French Literature

"Pictorial poetry" is a kind of poetry in which the lexicon (words) play an important role in depicting the images and the reader recreates the poetry by juxtaposition and word combination. In this kind of poetry the type of clipping of vocal and lexical as well as clipping the verses are shown which express the poetry content or its imagery. This paper attempts to study various samples of ancient pictorial poetries, Persian and French contemporary (especially Guillaume Apollinaire calligrams) poetries comparatively in order to point out the mutual effects of pictorial poetries of French and Persian in different eras.