Literary interdisciplinary research
maryam dorpar; mozhgan mirhoseini
Abstract
The nature of metaphor is collective and communal, and since historical issues play a role in the selection of the origin of metaphors and their cognitive function, in the present research, the reasons for the emergence of the conceptual metaphor "the lover is light" in Persian love poetry are discussed. ...
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The nature of metaphor is collective and communal, and since historical issues play a role in the selection of the origin of metaphors and their cognitive function, in the present research, the reasons for the emergence of the conceptual metaphor "the lover is light" in Persian love poetry are discussed. Therefore, firstly, the descriptive-analytical method was used to analyze the lyrical poetry of Sa’di and Monzavi, and then, the motifs of the sun were studied and analyzed using the comparative method. The results of the research show that in Sa’di's poem, one of the factors of the emergence of this macro metaphor is the lover's veiled face and the need to clarify the beauty of the beloved and how he is present, but in the Monzavi's poem where the beloved is not veiled, the cognitive functions of this metaphor change. It has been found significantly and the target area has changed from the lover to the lover, and the metaphor "the lover is light" has found creative aspects that are conceptualized from a different perspective every time. The role of the elements of the sun in the contemporary iranian images and the image of the female sun on the pottery show the extension of the metaphor "the sun is the goddess" which fits with the conceptual metaphor "the lover is the sun" in the Persian romantic sonnet.
