Analysis of Themes of Farrokhi Yazdi's Poems on the basis of Critical Aesthetics (Focusing on sonnet and also quatrain)

Frankfurt School is one of the intellectual currents which considers the duty of thinking about present and understanding one’s time through thought as a factor for any intellectual practice. Frankfurt members analyze the society mostly on the basis of Karl Marx ideas but the main pivot of this school’s thought is found in critical theory which examines and analyzes those aspects of the social facts which have not been much important for Marx and his followers. This school includes criticism of the society and different aspects of social and intellectual life. The critical aesthetic theory arises from this school. This theory has been used in various realms and fields of the humanities and social sciences to analyze problems of contemporary societies. In this article, we have used the view point of this theory about art and literature. The scholars of the critical theory stated some features for art and literature in order to specify the boundary between genuine art and ignoble one based on their own critical insight. Here, we have first analyzed the main concepts in the critical aesthetics, i.e. criticism in art, ideological nature of art, revolutionary art and autonomy in art, and then by analyzing the most important political and social issues of Farrokhi Yazdi’s divan the originality of his art has been shown on the basis of this theory.