Khaqani and Imagism

Imagism is one of the literary schools that holds a remarkable role in Persian literature. The researchers has determined some manifestations of Imagism in Indian style of Persian literature in addition to the contemporary literature. In this study, we refer to the similarities between the poetry of Khāghāni and the School of Imagism, a set of components makes Khāghāni to be considered as an Imagist, and study Khāghāni's poetry, considering image as the main color of poem as the most fundamental principal of imaginary poetry and show that like other imagists, the main concern of Khāghāni among all other poetic features, had been the image. He often uses his poetic features to create an image and portrays, with various imaging techniques, the image as the main color of his poem. Moreover, there are not some major defects of imaginary poetry such as the lack of human affection and impossibility to compose long narrative poem in the poems of Khāghāni. Considering these features the Khāghāni poetry can be introduced as the leading and pioneer example of imaginary poetry in Persian classical literature.