Analysis of the lyric and epic elements in the verse of Varegeh and Golshah

Division of literary texts is one of the important issues in literary theories. Literary texts are divided into different genres from form and content perspective. Lyric, epic, didactic and dramatic literatures are four accepted literary genres which their examples can be found in the world literature. Lyric, didactic and epic literatures have broad scopes in Persian literature. However, it is obvious that exact division of these genres is impossible; the dominated element is the only distinguishing criterion. The traces of lyric and didactic can be found in the Persian epics and the elements of other literary genres can be traced in the literary texts. Varegeh and Golshah written by Oughi is one of the Persian literature love stories. The love story that has signs of epic because of encountering hostile forces for wining of love and the epic and lyric elements have not deviated integrity and coherence of the text along with the distinction in artistic compilation. This question is arisen that: what literary and artistic components have been used by the poet for integration of the text and confiscating of epic aspect for the sake of lyric aspect? To what extent he has succeeded? Analysis of the epic and lyric elements of this verse shows that although the external music in the poetry demands epic atmosphere and lyric infrastructure of other works, the poet could guide this contradiction artistically toward sublimation of the poem and fix the text in its lyric form.