A discourse Analysis of Espacementalisme and Poetry of Islamic Revolution

Espacementalisme and poetry of Islamic revolution are two contemporary currents in Persian poetry of the last five decades. Espacementalisme represents Avant- garde and lack of commitment in poetry while the revolutionary poetry believes in committed poetry. Much has been written on the rivalry of these two currents that have tried to prove the other wrong in the past years. Their discourses are against each other. From geographical point of view, Damghan plays an important role as it is the birthplace of  Yadollah Royaie (leader of Espacementalisme and avant-garde poets) and Ali Molaem Damghani who is famous as leader of poetry of  Islamic Revolution poetry current.  In this paper, Laclau and Mouffe's views are used to discuss the discourse of manifestos of these two currents.