Verse and Versification: Nader Naderpoor and Abulghasem Shabi

Poetry being one of the notable verbal arts has been defined by many philosophers and literary scholars since the ancient times. To logicians، poetry is “imaginative discourse”، and to critics and literary scholars is a “rhyming discourse” yet the two theorists (Shabi and Naderpoor) have blended the two concepts by calling poetry an “imaginative rhyming discourse”. Today poets and literary theorists have put forth rather a deep and appreciative definition of the genre rather than a technical one. With the help of library sources and document analysis، the researcher not only delves into the concept of verse and versification but also takes into account the theories of the two contemporary Arabic، Abulghasem Shabi، and the Iranian poet Nader Naderpoor.