M.A. Thesis:

rkaggsm in contemproary poetry

Language changes during the history are divided in two parts, grammar or syntax and archaism which means using outdated terminology or style of writing in contemporary poetry and prose. One of the issues that changes common words to the poem and creates deviation and then makes “Departure from the norms” is archaism. Archaism has two types: Lexical and syntactic archaism. In lexical archaism, the poet uses old and obsolete words and old pronunciations. In syntactic archaism, the poet instead of writing poetry, in the natural norm of grammar follows old grammar and syntactic rules. This thesis consists of an introduction and five chapters: In the introduction, the significance, necessity, procedure, and literature review of the study are presented. In the first chapter, general concepts and in the second chapter archaism in famous contemporary poets of Persian literature are considered. In the third chapter, archaism in the poetry of Ahmad Shamloo is examined. Also, in the fourth chapter, archaism in the poetry of Akhavan Sales is considered. Conclusions of the study are presented in fifth chapter

Keywords: Syntactic and lexical archaism, departure from the norm, Shamloo, Akhavan Sales