Examining the dialectic relationship between two romantic elements including “imagination” and “individualism” in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and ForoughFarokhzad’s poetry

Having adopted an analytic-descriptive approach, the present study aims at comparatively reading the dialectic relationship between two elements including “imagination” and “individualism” in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and Farokhzad Farokhzad’s poetry. Imagination and individualism have been extremely highlighted in the works of romantic poets and were also frequently used in the works of the aforementioned poets .However, the obtained results revealed a dialectic relationship between the two elements which clarify the necessity to examine it. Examining the dialectic relationship between the phenomena and concepts originates in philosophy and history which is as long as the history of thought. Dialectic refers to discovering the relationship based on the internal conflicts which commenced following the philosophy of Socrates and Plato and reached its climax following Hegel’s thought. In Shelley’s and Farokhzad’s poetry, imagination originates from the inside of the society although it ultimately changes into something characterized as being an individualist. Nonetheless, the present study shows that contrary to Shelley’s poetry in which individualism and imagination forms only one dialectic relationship with no ultimate synthesis, in Farokhzad’s poetry, this relationship leads to a new “synthesis” which is the poetic making of a kind of “Social Ego”.