Many noteworthy studies have been done to examine the discursive relationship between gender and metaphor in the context of politics, media and literature. In this research, however, I try to investigate the relationship between gender and metaphor specifically in poetical discourse. The main questions of this research are as follows: What is the role of gender in the production and selection o...

new epic poetry is a modern version of the mainstream epic tradition whose features have changed to meet the requirements of modern taste. the most outstanding poet in employing this form is ahmad shamloo, one of the most renowned contemporary iranian poets. to highlight the changes in the content and formal linguistic features of the traditional and new forms of epic, the present study compare...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

many poets have dealt with and referred to the subject of woman. their attitude towards woman is affected by public perspective and their personal experiences. having looked at descriptions related to relationship of man and woman in ahmad shamloo's and nezami ganjavi's poetry, this paper attempts to introduce two different and general views on woman role and characteristics. although...

archaism is one of the most important tools for defamiliarisation of speech and it causes the wordto go beyond the reach of the common people and be closer to poetry. the most prominent function of defamiliarisation is the poetic creativity that a part of it originates from the archaism. ahmad shamloo who is among the innovator and effective poets of our time, has largely benefited from the arc...

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed co...

the musical and content harmony of modern iranian poetry is the core of this paper. there’ll be, initially, some arguments on the importance, coordination and the fitness existing between the poems’ components and the concinnity and elegance occurs, then the importance dedicated to such components by the poets and their beliefs to the harmonious coordination reflexes in their works will be scru...

metaphor is a subject that has attracted the attention of theorists from different sciences of eloquency, linguistics, philosophy and etc. cognitive school is one of the schools which pays a specific attention to metaphor. cognitive semantics is a branch steming from cognitive school that defines any kinds of cognition and dectaving of       abstract concepts in the from of more concrete concep...