Analysis of Iranian Cultural Signs in Reza Baraheni's Daf Poetry

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD in Persian Language and Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

10.22034/ihc.2026.21110

Abstract

Reza Baraheni is an Iranian poet, writer, and critic from Tabriz. He is a poet who founded postmodern Iranian poetry in the early 1970s with his theorizing and challenging the poetic theory of Nima and Shamloo. There is a misconception about postmodernism, which is that postmodernist works are meaningless. Based on what has been said, the fundamental question in the present research is how Reza Baraheni, as a postmodern poet, undertakes a cultural dissection of his society in his Daf poetry? And by what methods does he do this? And how does the text instill meaning? In this research, we have analyzed Reza Baraheni's Daf poetry with an analytical-descriptive method and based on library and documentary studies, and have identified and explored the signs of Iranian culture in it. The findings show that in Daf poetry, we are dealing with a process of self-knowledge. On the one hand, the narrator tries to recognize his identity by recalling the symbols of Iranian history and culture. This identity is represented in the form of a "daf". On the other hand, the narrator's identity (his daf) encompasses all the symbols of Iranian culture.

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Iranian History of Culture
Volume 3, Issue 1
March 2026
Pages 94-112

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  • Receive Date: 13 November 2025
  • Revise Date: 24 December 2025
  • Accept Date: 07 January 2026
  • Publish Date: 21 March 2026

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