Surveying and Comparing Elegy from Three Generation of Contemporary Poets

Marsiya or Elegy is considered as one of the oldest literary types and poetic themes which have experienced various forms over the time. This essay has been done with the aim of studying and examining works and poems of some contemporary poets, in order to get to know with structural and semantic changes and evolutions of this literary type in modern times. Poets that have been considered for this research are from three different generationsWith their own different thoughts including six lecturers: Malek al-shoara Bahar and Mohammad Hossein Shahryar as two archaic poets, Mehdi Akhavan Sales and Ahmad Shamlou as intellectual poets with their own specific intellectual orientations, and Alireza Ghazveh and Qeysar Aminpour as revolutionary poets, the population contains all of their published. In this examination which has been done based on the library research with note-taking method, after taking out all of their elegies and analyzing each of them, the results have been concluded in the form of research findings including: a) determining statistical frequency of elegy in poetries of the mentioned poets and specifying the number of elegy in poetries of each of these lecturers, b) determining lingual features and characteristics of each poet in their elegies, c) determining audience of elegies that the obtained results in this section caused to be able to categorize these poems in various sub-divisions including: 1. Personal elegy, 2. Religious elegy, 3. Social elegy, 4. Revolutionary elegy, and etc.