Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

Oriental Mysticism in the Works of Konstantin Balmont, the Poet of Symbolism and Poet Laureate of the Russian Language

Document Type : Research

Authors

Marzieh Yahyapour 1
Masoumeh Motamednia 2
Janolah Karimi Motahhar 1

1 Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar

Abstract
In this article, while introducing Konstantin Balmont, the symbolist poet of the twentieth century of Russia, known as Poet Laureate in Russian literature, attention has been paid to his oriental themes in the context of the Russian Symbolist School. Balmont is one of the founders of the Russian Symbolist School. The idea of divine religions, which means that only body of man is destroyed by the death and the man returns to God, is also the basis of Russian symbolism, which is frequently seen in Balmont's poetry. Then, the article deals with  the origin and form of some of the eastern themes. The four elements (fire, water, earth, and air) are the main themes of Balmont's poems. Balmont was familiar with Iranian poets such as Mawlānā, Khaghani, and Hafez, and it seems that his poems have been composed of the elements by Persian poets. He tries to find "Shams" in this world under the influence of the Holy Quran, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the mystical Iranian-Oriental works, the Sufism of Hafez and Mawlānā, and the poems "Do not Forget: The Quran is the Book of Avoidance", "From there", "Star of the Desert", "Silence", "Jalal Al-Din Rumi", "advice", "Andalib", etc. based on the oriental themes and poems of Iranian poets. The themes that influenced the formation of the mystical and Sufi thoughts of the Russian poet and the poet's main attention are in the "world of existence" and the concept of "pre-existence and eternity".

Keywords

Konstantin Balmont
Oriental Themes
Symbolist
Eternity
Four Elements

Subjects

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Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)
Volume 18, Issue 8 - Serial Number 60
December 2018
Pages 343-359

  • Receive Date 01 March 2018
  • Revise Date 25 May 2018
  • Accept Date 22 July 2018

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