Application of metaphor as a stylistic feature ‎of Naser Khosrow’s poetry‎

Abstract

The aim of this article is to review the material, ‎structure, features of metaphor and tropology techniques as ‎the most important element of imagination in Naser ‎Khowsro’s poems. Human organs, various classes of people, ‎nature, the world and sky are the most important elements ‎which Naser Khowsro’s uses as metaphors in his poems.‎
Naser Khowsro resorts to imaginary elements including ‎metaphor to describe and explain his various notions and for ‎this purpose he has employed abstract stipulated metaphor ‎which is easier to comprehend, more than other types of ‎metaphor.‎
Naser Khowsro usually first employs an analogy for ‎tropology and in the following verses, by eliminating the ‎simile or adding to it, changes analogy to metaphor another ‎technique is that he firstly expresses a subject in a verse about ‎a subject, person, thing or a group and in the following verse ‎expresses the metaphor in relation to that subject among ‎metaphors in Naser Khowsro’s poems, there are metaphors ‎which are used in conundrum, and by the descriptions ‎presented by Naser Khowsro about that conundrum,‎‏ ‏finding ‎the simile is easy.‎

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