پژوهشي در مضامين اشعار و ديدگاه هاي ليوپولدسدار سنگور (1906-2001)

A Thematic Study of Leopold Sedar Senghorʹs Poetry and Viewpoints

Leopold Sedar Sengor , the Senegalese most renowned black poet was born in 1906 in Senegal. He completed his studies in the a Catholic school in Dakar and Liberman College and in 1928 went to Paris to pursue his higher education. He learned literature and philosophy in Louis le Grand and Sorbonne University. In 1935, he was appointed professor of Grammar in France. He was a surrealist poet whose modem and very sophisticated poems shrouded in specific French-African atmosphere, music, traditions and legends. In this article, by using the microlecture method, first devised by Jean Pierre Richard, and by analyzing some of Sedar Senghorʹs Ethiopian poems, his themes will be shown. In this way, the poetʹs ideas, will be depicted through the analysis of his use of similies, metaphors, repetition of certain concepts, negritude, and Creole.