Document Type : applied research
Author
Assistant Professor, Department of Persian language and literature, Garmsar branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
Abstract
Literature has offered the best situation to process poetic imagination and emotions mingled with objects and nature within centuries,. For this purpose, rhetoric devices like simile and personification have been required. In this style, the poet considers object and natural phenomena from the power of imagination. One of the Masnavi composers, Hatefi Khabushani, has applied personification to illustrate his speech. He has used changes of meaning and used the extrovert perception to convey the meanings and implications more significantly. The present research has used the analytical descriptive method to scrutinize the epopee of Shirin and Khosrow by the technique of changing the meaning through personification. The research findings indicate that Hatefi has practiced descriptive-simile, imitative-repetitive and the interpretive types of changing the meanings and adulteration in his poems. The changing of meaning in imitative- repetitive has vastly covered the personifications in this epopee and has given a literal magnificence to it.
Key words: Hatefi Khabushani, Shirin and Khosrow, imagination, personification, Changes of meaning.
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