‌Personal and Collective Identity and Their Features in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darvish and Gheisar Aminpoor

Mahmoud Darvish and Qaisar Aminpour are both poets in whose works identity, both social and individual, have found special growth, maturity and crystallization; social commitment and giving meaning to the formal and structural ideals of a poem have been inseparable components of committed poetry; as many critics have considered the ultimate goal of poetry to be the fulfillment of this commitment. The existence of individual and collective identities in poetry pave the way for the emergence of personal and social ideals by which the poet demonstrates his identification with society and a specific audience. Mahmoud Darvish and Qaisar Aminpour have both used their collective identities to preserve the values of society and the revolutionary spirit, so much that many of the content characteristics of their works can be analyzed from the point of view of this tendency. They are comparable with the love for the homeland, resistance and struggle, collective nostalgia, the history of a nation, etc. that are the tangible pillars of this view. In addition to this committed response, the personal identity has also been clarified - not as a collective identity; but the context of its growth and development has never been completely limited to the individual spirit, and the poet has always taken a step towards the desire to socialize and leave the personal identity.