Romanticism Reflections in the Poetry of Mahsati Ganjavi

Abstract

The poetry of Mahsati Ganjavi, a Persian poet of the 6th century, has unique features based on the principles of Romanticism. Therefore, the ground is prepared to investigate his collected poems based on the components of Romanticism. This study aims to analyze and describe the collected poems of Mahsati Ganjavi using documentary and descriptive methods, and to answer the question of how much the components of Romanticism are reflected in his poetry. The results of this analysis show that many characteristics of Romanticism, such as the return to nature, attention to human nature, escape and travel, individuality and uniqueness, freedom, non-conformity to ethics, emotion and sentiment, romantic melancholy, love, illness, imagination, romantic imagery, the pole of figurative language, and the magic of words are present in the poetry of Mahsati Ganjavi, making it one of the romantic works of Persian literature.