طرز بابافغاني

The Poetic Style of Babafaghani

A survey of stylistics of literary works as a means of discovering relationships between text construction elements would be effective when the relationships between the work and artistic mentality of the poet on one hand and socio- cultural situation of the time in which the work has been created come under close scrutiny. Late 9th century and early 10th century (AH) is considered in the history of Iran as an era which enwombed with great revolutionary changes as far as socio-political issues are concerned. The monarchy of Safavids Dynasty and accepting Shiism as the official religion in the country provided the poets with such a pleasing cultural condition which they did not have before. Babafaghani Shirazi, a well-known poet lived in the second half of the 9th and early decades of 10th century. His lifetime coincided with the time of fall of Iraqi Style of poetry and flourishing era of a new style which is now called the "Indian Style". Faghani Shirazi is among the few poets that most critics and other poets have had a biased judgment against him. Few critics can ever be found who have not opened up a hostile language to reprimand or admire Faghani in their critical discussions or comments. Simply put, there is no medium point in judging about Faghani. Poets and writers either have praised or humiliated him and his poems. These kinds of attitudes towards Faghani have made us consider him as an influential figure. His exaggerative adherence to Hafiz and his attempts to devise a new style in sonnet made the present writer to examine his stylistics in his Diwan (collection of poems) and report it in this piece of writing.