rhetoric analysis on metaphor in sa’adi’s arabic poems

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form or content, is important in his specific poetic language. since sa’adi makes frequent use of metaphor in his poetry, the authors, in present article, try to study different types of imagery and metaphor used in his arabic verses. he had used several types of metaphor, such as absolute, active, complex, compound etc. in his arabic poems. the form and the quantity of the metaphors had been used in his poems show that he sought to convey meanings rather than showing his abilities in using literary industries.