Document Type : applied research
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Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Yazd
Abstract
Immortality and eternal life are common topics in Persian literature, especially mystical literature. In the Safavid era, poets used many conceptual metaphors to explain abstract themes due to their tendency towards the language of the people. Conceptual or cognitive metaphors, according to Lakoff and Johnson's theory, are frequently used in language based on human sensory and dynamic experiences and to explain his mentalities. Persian poets have also explained many complexities of the mind with this type of metaphors in a concrete way in the language. Saeb Tabrizi is one of the poets of Indian style who has included many cognitive metaphors in his poems to understand the eternal life. In this study, based on the descriptive method and the theory of Lakoff and Johnson, we will examine the conceptual metaphors of Saeb's poems to explain eternal life in the form of 40 maps. Using structural and ontological metaphors, Saeb has considered quantitative eternal life as the essence of emptiness and has defined immortality qualitatively in the acquisition of moral and mystical virtues.
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