Modernist-Existential Manifestations of Thinking of Death in New Wave Poetry

According to intellectual and social atmosphere, poets' encounter with death has been different in each period.In the contemporary period, modern poets, especially the new wavepoets, have been influenced by modernism and existentialist philosophy.Therefore, the main question of this research focuses on explaining modernist and ontological contexts of thinking of death and its manifestations in New Wave poetry.The descriptive-analytical method of this research enables the researchers to first examine the modernist elements and opinions of famous philosophers – notably Socrates, Plato, Heidegger, Sartre and Blanchot – about "death” and then classify and analyze the modernist-existentialist manifestations of death thoughts in New Wave poets. Findings indicate that new wave poets understand death as an ontological phenomenon.Therefore, as in pre-modern poetry, there is no mystical, fateful, or even Khayami type of death thought. Also, while Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Bijan Elahi, Hossein Rasail, Mahmoud Shojaei and Hoten Nejat have more individualistic and modernist tendencies in the face of death, in Javad Mojabi, Shahram Shahrokhtash, Mohammad Reza Aslani, and Bahram Ardabili’s poetry, ontological-modernist tendencies of death-thought are manifested along with a mixture of social concerns and unsettled political conditions; in addition, in Parviz Islampour and Hamid Irfan\s poetry, political suffocation and lack of freedom have led to death thoughts and, hence, modernist individualistic tendencies are placed in the background.