Ahmed Shamlou poetic works

Author's name: Ahmed Shamlou Publisher: Al-Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2023 Literary classification: Poetry, Translated Book overview: Ahmed Shamlou - The poetic works by Ahmed Shamlou ... Shamlou says that poetry has two elements: the internal element "the soul" and the external element "the material." The internal element is the subject, and the external is the meter, rhyme, and aesthetics, which are the result of the poet's style and ability. Poetry should be, above all, poetry, meaning: first poetry, then commitment. There should be a separation between poetry and slogans. Poetry is an incident, an event caused by time and place, but its form is realized in language. Words in poetry are not appearances of things, but they are things themselves that find their presence within it, in the words, in their color and taste, in their sound, size, and delicacy, in the connotations they create, in the possible associations within them, with all the energy they can have, with all the culture hidden behind each of them, with the spectrum they can produce, and with all the history they carry.