Bakhtinian Ontology as Evidenced by Some Poetical Specimens in Farsi Language

This paper represents an attempt to explore Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas in the processof interpretation of some selected Farsi poems by a few contemporary Iranianpoets. In so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at Bakhtin's era,which shaped his literary philosophical views; then it continues with a briefdiscussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, namelyintertextuality, heteroglossia, dualism, and carnivalesque. While dealing with thepragmatic meaning of the poems, the theme of centripetal and the centrifugal forces oflanguage was addressed in a bid to illustrate the fact how the poet by deviating fromthe conventional codes of language system, i.e. by estrangement, manages to conveyhis intentional meaning that would have otherwise ceased to fascinate the reader.Finally, the decontextualized rationality in order to highlight the significant role ofvoice in sociocultural approach, the legacy of Vygotsky, to the genesis of mind, whichgoes a long way in the interpretive process of poetry were discussed.