A Study of Metaphorical Semantic Deviation in Nasser Bokharaei’s Ghazals in Comparison with Sa’di’s
Subject Areas : Lyrical (with literary and artistic features)
گرامی gerami
1
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mohammadreza najjarian
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1 - language and persian literature. faculty of humanity of yazd university. Iran
2 - persian language and literature. humanity faculty. yazd university. Iran
Keywords: Keywords: Sa&rsquo, di, Nasser Bokharaei, semantic deviation, simile, ghazal,
Abstract :
Deviation is regarded as one of the most effective methods of literary highlighting in Russian Formalism. It denotes a departure from standard language and a digression from the regulations dominant in automatic language. This element of highlighting encompasses various types such as vocabular, stylistic, dialectical, syntactic, phonological, temporal, semantic, etc. Semantic deviation signifies the deviations in figurative devices (simile, metonymy, metaphor, etc.) and stylistic devices, which are used by many poets in their poetry. Taking into account the viewpoints about Bokharaei’s interest in and imitation of Sa’di, this study uses a descriptive-analytical method to analyze the semantic highlighting (in the field of simile) in Bokharaei’s ghazals in comparison with Sa’di’s ghazals on the two levels of “highlighting of the vehicle” and “highlighting of the ground of comparison” on the basis of the subject matter. The findings of this research reveal that Bokharaei, although being under the influence of Sa’di, has made use of unique and novel similes which differentiate and distinguish his ghazals from Sa’di’s. These similes are mostly related to the love contents of the poems, such as the description of the beloved and her beauty, which are at best displayed in the level of “highlighting of the vehicle”.
