A Review of the Arabic Verses and Phrases in Divan Dehkhoda

The poetry of the Constitutional era bears new concepts and forms which has become popular with critical, political and social attitudes to a high extent and therefore found plenty of readers. Still it has several similarities with the classical poetry in its superstructure and form; one of these aspects is the application of Arabic in the poetry of this era. Dehkhoda is a poet of the Constitutional era whose usage of Arabic as a major feature has made his poetry similar to the poetry of the past in form and structure. One of the important reasons for such similarity is the high frequency of Arabic words, phrases, hemistich and verses. This article tries to categorize Dehkhoda's poetry in topic in his book of poetry (Divan) regarding the Arabic words, phrases and verses used in order to survey how Dehkhoda has applied Arabic. Further on this analysis will clarify the extent to which the usage of Arabic is in line with the new thoughts and contents in the poetry of the Constitutional era, in addition to revealing the influence of the past poetry and thought.