A Comparative Study of Nima’s and Akhavan's Poetic Actions Based on Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Action

In Bourdieu's theory of action, the literary work is the reproduction of cultural capital and the result of a combination of economic capital and the habitus. Additionally, it is a social action that a person shows in the literary field. Poetry, as a literary work, is a product of the mental dimension of cultural capital, which appears as a material success and objectified by the poet. This research compares the poetic actions of Nima and Akhavan with an approach to the capital and field based on Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in order to answer the questions of how the actions of these two poets are expressed with their decisions and how they react to the actions of others and the socio-political conditions of the society. The background of the research shows that many researchers paid little attention to this matter. The methodology of this study, in terms of nature and method, is descriptive-analytical and regarding its purpose, is fundamental-theoretical. The results indicated that both poets have similarities in some poetic actions but have different reactions in some others, the process of which is writing social-political poems in the field of Persian poetry production.