The Semantics of Eclectic Symbols in a Sonnet by Monzavi based on the Modern Hermeneutics Theory

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Yaddollah Saaei ¹ , Alisarvar Yaghubi ² , Mohammadali Davudabbadi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری ادبیات غنایی، واحد اراک، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اراک، ایران.
2 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، واحد اراک، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اراک، ایران. نویسنده مسئول: [e-mail]
3 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، واحد اراک، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اراک، ایران.

Received: 2021-04-07 Accepted : 2021-06-01 Published : 2023-09-23

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Abstract :

Hermeneutics is such an outstanding approach in the study of humanity that is used for analyzing and interpreting text meaning, focusing on text comprehension. This article aimed to investigate a sonnet by Hossein Monzavi entitled “Your Mourning Is Epic” analytically and descriptively based on the modern hermeneutics theory. Hence first of all, encoding of the surface meaning of the poem has been done. Then, connotation of the text has been clarified on the basis of the obtained literary significations. The findings indicated that Monzavi, through combining all myths, succeeded to collapse times and places, destroyed common logic of narration, reproduced somehow the myths and recreated historical narrations in a novel context with new semantic capacities. Turning to the subjects of war and the holy defense that had governed the poems of that time, he had employed the device of combining the myth of Siavash and historical epic of Ashura as well as the similarities among the happenings and thoughts of the two events so that he would be able to strengthen the space and tone of his sonnet along the path of epic whereby his readership’s feelings would be raised and he would encourage them to maintain their sense of safeguarding their homeland as well as their religious-national values.