Examining the conceptual metaphor of love in Nizami and Khajovi Kermani's sonnets

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.

2 Master's student of Persian language and literature at Zabol University.

10.22075/jlrs.2025.34615.2489

Abstract

Nizami Ganjavi is one of the great poets of Persian literature, whose sonnets were followed by Khajavi Kermani. Love and its conceptual system is one of the themes that has a special place in the lyrics of both poets due to the combination of romantic concepts and mystical concepts. The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing and investigating the conceptual metaphor of love in Nizami and Khajovi ‌Kermani's sonnets. Based on the descriptive-analytical method, this research examines the domains of common vehicles and the domains of different vehicles in Nizami and Khajo's sonnets through the classification of visual schemas. The results indicate that the pictorial schemas for concepts such as sadness, fire, lethality, drunkenness, mysteriousness, newness, love over reason, light, lawsuit, passion, lion, clothes, deprivation of freedom and sacred The domains of vehicles are common in Nizami and Khajo poems. On the other hand, the fields of vehicles of grief and pain have the highest frequency in Nizami and Khajovi-Kermani's sonnets. These similar frequencies for these concepts indicate the similar view of these two poets on the concept of love; In addition to this, the poems of both poets have several non-common domains for the conceptualization of love, which shows the individuality and artistic view of each poet towards this concept.

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Journal Of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies

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