A Comparative Study of the Symbols Used in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani and Nizar Qabbani

Comparative literature is a means of crossing political, ethnic and cultural boundaries, where subjective data find the opportunity to develop and break out of their confines paving the way for getting acquainted with similar works among other ethnic groups. Indeed, the result will be the discovery of commonalities, the study of each can not only reveal the effects and interactions, but also unveil the influence of external and contextual factors in the formation of similar works. Comparative symbolism is beneficial in this framework and can pinpoint the factors influencing the formation of each. Obviously, resorting to symbols is in fact avoiding clarification, which is done due to various reasons. One prominent reason is to multiply the induced image by the number of audiences, and this breadth and multiplicity of the created image is one of the main reasons for durability of symbols in literary works.

This study follows a comparative descriptive approach to investigate the poems of two contemporary Iranian and Arab poets, namely Simin Behbahani and Nizar Qabbani, and the impressionability of each of these two poets in terms of use of symbol. It is obvious that symbols are used to avoid direct perspective was used to investigate the works of two contemporary Iranian and Arab poets, namely Simin Behbahani and Nizar Qabbani, in a library and descriptive manner, with the purpose of pinpointing the influence of symbols on these two poets.