Comparative Analysis of Simile in Wisdom Poems of Boostan and Motanabbi,s songs

Subject Areas : شعر

mohammad benam far ¹ , majid khosravi ²

1 - استاد یار زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه بیرجند
2 - کارشناسی ارشد زبان وادبیات فارسی دانشگاه بیرجند

Received: 2012-01-05 Accepted : 2012-08-09 Published : 2012-08-01

Keywords: بوستان سعدی- سروده های حکمی-متنبی- تشبیه-بلاعت تطبیقی- ادبیات تطبیقی, Keywords Boostan of Saadi, Motanabbi’s theosophical poems, simile, Comparative Rhetoric, Didactic Literature,

Abstract :

 Abstract Simile is one of the most obvious and fundamental ways of expression that has a major role in imagination and effect of poet’s speech. In this article in a descriptive – analysis and comparative method, similes have been surveyed in theosophical poems of Boostan and Motanabbi’s theosophical poems from different aspects such as: mutual of simile, perceptual simile and conceptual simile, singular and compound, point of resemblance and … and statistical analysis of them is presented. The results of research reveal that, Saadi and Motanabbi, have used different types of similes including: singular, compound, absolute simile, implicit simile, shortened simile, emphatic simile and …, but in the application of simile they are statistically different. As among 311 images that were extracted from theosophical verses of Boostan, 97 of them were similes (%31) and among 112 images that were extracted from theosophical verses of Motanabbi 43 were similes (%38) and this fact shows that Motanabbi,s power or trend to simile is more than Saadi. The second result is that Saadi,s similes are often singular, shortened and obvious, but Motanabbi,s similes are compound, implicit and complicated.