The Figurative-Rhetoric usage of punctuation in the contemporary Persian poetry

In the evolutionary trend of poetry in the present age alongside the special application of prosodic meters and relative cohesiveness in the stanzas, poets while focusing upon modern rhetoric potentialities, have also utilized writing capabilities to strengthen a specific form and to reach at an artistic structure. For example, they concentrate upon the writing style and lexical capacity through dissection while creating the desired atmosphere. One of the possibilities having been used by the contemporary modernist poets to enrich the form and the linguistic-artistic construction, as well as to exactly represent the poems is using punctuation. These signs, besides their special application for describing numerous kinds of sentences and correct reading of phrases and words, in the modern poetry and especially in the works done by the followers of Nima’s style have attained semiotic aspects and particular signification as a part of artistic-poetical structure, Their analysis can indicate the diversified viewpoints of contemporary poets about different phenomena. This research is an attempt to indicate the importance of the signs of writing in the modern poetry with a view to open the new phase in a vast perspective which requires more attention and exactness.