An Investigation of Humanism of Contemporary Poets from the Point of View of Epistemology

This research aims to take an epistemological outlook towards humanism in modern poetry, from Persian constitutional revolution up until the Islamic revolution in Iran. By taking a pathological stance, the survey shows how from the constitutional period in Iran, which is the commencement to modernism and accordingly to the flow of western philosophical thoughts, humanism has always been combined with personal partisan and westernized conceptions, and on the other hand always inattentive to religion and the realities of the sociopolitical structures of Iranian society. Insistence on the transference of such a culture and literature, without paying attention to the cultural and literary infrastructures of the country of the origin, has been the problem in works of modern poets. Another concept that this paper insists on is that many poets have only tried to imitate the humanist thoughts in modernist poetry. On the other hand, because of the lack of intimacy, absence of visual experience and also generalization, there is no real alignment to be found between the alleged modernist poet’s poetry and its audience. This is more than anything because of the luxurious and imitative outlook that poets have towards this specific type of poetry.