A Survey on Cohesion and Cohesive Harmony in a short poem by Ahmad-e- Shamloo

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Badryye Ghavami ¹ , Lyda Azarnava ²

1 - Assistant Professor in Persian Literature, Department of Persian Literature, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran
2 - PhD in Persian Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2013-04-23 Accepted : 2013-07-29 Published : 2013-08-23

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Abstract :

According to Halliday& R.Hassan, semantic cohesion is defined as "a semantic concept" and refers to the semantic relationships between the elements of a text.The understanding of some textual elements can be facilitatedbased on the functions of these relationships. One element presupposes the other and this means that the second element cannot be understood without the first one. Therefore, the relationships between the textual elements lead to the cohesion and consistence of the text. Classifying the cohesive elements, this paper is conducted to analyze one of Shamloo`s poems by using Halliday& Hassan`s theory of cohesion and cohesive  harmony.  And  finally,  the  elements  are  investigated  which consist each cohesive chain. The results show that this poem is cohesive and its grammatical cohesion is more than its lexical cohesion. The majority of  instances  of  grammatical  cohesion  are  related  to  personal reference. Applying this theory, we can measure the degree of cohesion in all the poems by Shamloo and any other poet.