À l’écoute dumurmure des Kâshi

Abstract

Being the product of a new encounter with the world, poetry is rooted in a pure imagination, which frees the poet from all the limits and makes him cross all the geographical and real borders to create his own world. Living this poetic moment by perceivinga small kashi, Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani implements an imaginary territory full of myths and history in a poem entitled “The Second Millennium of the mountain gazelle”. Relying on notions such as landscape and literary geography, the present study tries to depict a precise image of this experience inspired by an architectural element and to find the basic features of the relationship established between the poet, the world, and words. In fact, progressively penetrating into a vast geographical milieu, which is in particular the eastern part of Iran, Kadkani offers in this poem a marvelous landscape that takes him to an imaginary journey into the heart of the legends and myths of Persia. On this journey, the poet and this sensitive space, which is largerthan history and time, unite