Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
10.22091/jls.2025.12495.1680
Abstract
The popularization of literature, the expansion of its audience to the general public, and the focus on contemporary political and social events led poets of the Constitutional period to employ colloquial language with limited attention to poetic elements, resulting in the absence of substantial literary advancement. Critics have acknowledged that despite the introduction of new themes and poets’ efforts toward literary modernization, Constitutional poetry, owing to its colloquial nature, contains defects and inaccuracies. Poets of this era generally lacked mastery over linguistic precision and the natural structures of the Persian language. Abolqasem Lahouti, although a pioneer of modern poetry, was not immune to such shortcomings; his works exhibit flaws that compromise their eloquence and rhetorical refinement. Through the present descriptive-analytical study, it becomes evident that Lahouti demonstrates weakness in both the lexical and syntactic domains. His reliance on obscure loanwords from Russian, Tajik, French, and other languages—often producing dissonance and auditory unpleasantness—together with his use of abbreviations and acronyms incomprehensible to readers, as well as spelling inaccuracies, exemplify his lexical deficiencies. Although the defects in his syntactic constructions are less frequent, his poetry nevertheless reveals shortcomings such as lexical disharmony, weak composition, and both verbal and semantic complexity. Collectively, these flaws confirm the validity of critics’ views regarding the lack of eloquence and rhetorical sophistication in Constitutional poets, among whom Lahouti is included.
Soleimani, A. (2025). Examining the Deficiencies of Eloquence and Rhetoric in the Divan of Abolqasem Lahouti. Rhetoric and Grammar Studies, (), -. doi: 10.22091/jls.2025.12495.1680
MLA
Ali Soleimani. "Examining the Deficiencies of Eloquence and Rhetoric in the Divan of Abolqasem Lahouti". Rhetoric and Grammar Studies, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.22091/jls.2025.12495.1680
HARVARD
Soleimani, A. (2025). 'Examining the Deficiencies of Eloquence and Rhetoric in the Divan of Abolqasem Lahouti', Rhetoric and Grammar Studies, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22091/jls.2025.12495.1680
VANCOUVER
Soleimani, A. Examining the Deficiencies of Eloquence and Rhetoric in the Divan of Abolqasem Lahouti. Rhetoric and Grammar Studies, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.22091/jls.2025.12495.1680
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