Contra-reading and De-canonization as Tagi-Danesh’s Manifest Style

Taqi Danesh, one of the early Qajar and late Pahlavi‘s traditional and anonymous poets, tremendously influenced by poetry of Khorasani, Azerbaijani, Iraqi, and especially Hindu style. Regarding Taghi Danesh‘s lyrics and poems and taking famous Hindu poets into consideration, two contradictory views (co-reading and contra-reading) could be grasped. In other words, once he followed traditional, repetitive, cliché and one-dimensional literary styles (poetic style of Khorasani, Azerbaijani and Iraqi) in poetic elements and phenomenon, famous fictitious, historical, mythic and Qurani characters. And another time breaking the norms and contra-readings represents dramatically contradictory views to the same subjects and issues. The object of contra-reading in Tagi-Danesh poetics is to achieve “alien concept” and avoid long literary traditions of one-dimensional, cliché and repetitive, characters, famous mythic, Qurani, historical meanings and concepts in custom and literary norms. His recent vision looks from different angel to these issues, judges them contrary to custom and leaves from canon the religious Qurani characters and elements. The present study attempts to extract contra-readings and De-canonization from Taghi-Danesh poetics and presents the findings alphabetically. The results show that Tagi-danesh following Indian poets has remarkably applied contra-readings and sharecropper.