Comparative study of postwar literature (Iranian Holy defense and Vietnam’s War) Komunyakaa’s and Aminpour’s Poems

This study explores the thematic, stylistic, and ideological parallels and divergences between postwar literature emerging from the Iranian Holy Defense (Iran-Iraq War) and the Vietnam War, focusing on selected poems by Yusef Komunyakaa and Seyyed Hassan Hosseini Aminpour. Both poets, shaped by the traumatic landscapes of war, offer compelling meditations on memory, loss, and the moral complexities of conflict. Through a comparative lens, this paper examines how Komunyakaa’s firsthand experience as a war correspondent and Aminpour’s spiritual and nationalistic reflections contribute to distinct yet resonant poetic voices. By analyzing imagery, tone, cultural references, and philosophical undercurrents, the study reveals how war poetry transcends national boundaries to engage with universal themes of suffering, resilience, and the human cost of violence. Ultimately, this comparative analysis underscores the power of poetic expression in shaping collective memory and national identity in the aftermath of war he eight-year war, years of the Holy Defense were not the only great position for Islamic soldiers on the rightagainst-wrong fronts; because alongside them, the cultural community, and especially the poets, had a different but equally effective weapon in their hands, and it was the pen. The contemporary history of Iran is full of resistance, self-sacrifice and stability in the path of freedom and liberty of Iran, which was suddenly attacked by Iraq’s regime, was tied to the most important mission of revolutionary literature and the most influential current of those years, the poetry of the revolution.

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Comparative literature postwar literature ، Holy Defense ، postwar poems