Reflections of Common Countryside Sceneries in American and Kurdish Poems by Robert Frost and Abdullah Goran

Osama Gharib Hussen; Sirwan Abdulkarim Ali

doi:10.25212/lfu.qzj.9.2.41

Authors

Osama Gharib Hussen Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts, Soran University, Soran, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Sirwan Abdulkarim Ali Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts, Soran University, Soran, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25212/lfu.qzj.9.2.41

Keywords:

aesthetics, revitalization, parallelism, seasonal images, and rural scenery

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of selected poems written by Robert Frost (1874–1963), as an American poet) and the Kurdish poet, Abdulla Goran (1904–1963), following the principles of the American School of comparative literature, which emphasizes a comparative study of texts from various cultures within parallelism theory - American school of comparative literature. This study investigates the significance of countryside sceneries in selected poems written by both poets in the modern era. The study also analyses seasonal changes and nature-human interactions through employing formal ambiguity The study argues that the various natural images used by the poets, as they prompted readers to actively participate in analyzing the aesthetic scenery portrayals and countryside landscapes. Goran and Frost relied heavily on the interpretation of landscapes and humanity as close observers of the interactions between people and the surrounding images.

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