Abstract:
One of the aesthetic aspects of Mohammad Taqi Bahar's poetry is imagery. Bahar's creative mind in the realm of iconography blends imagination and inspiration with verbal artistry such that his emotional, psychological states, and complex logical demonstrations are primarily manifested through image-making elements like simile and metaphor. In the domain of simile, he makes extensive use of condensed or eloquent comparisons and sensory-to-sensory images, which possess great diversity. The subject of the simile (mushabbah) is often the poet himself, a praised person, a beloved, or sometimes abstract concepts, while the subject of comparison (mushabbah bihi) is generally elements of nature and objects. In his metaphors, metonymic types (personification) and explicit preferred metaphors occupy the highest frequency. Regarding the components of his imagination, the object of metaphor (musta'ar minhu) is mostly nature and objects, while the purpose of the metaphor (musta'ar lahu) is the praised person, the beloved, or the poet himself. In this article, the author endeavors to, through formal analysis, first demonstrate the sources of the rhetoric of these artistic and sometimes innovative images along with precise examples, and then provide a content analysis of these image-creating elements.
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One is like the silver ball of the king, the other like his golden curling locks 27/18 She came to me adorned with both face and tress; one like a dark night, the other like a shining full moon 116/5 My eyes are wailing from the pain of love, my heart is crying out from the passion of love 118/7 This one has become like fire, great; that one has become like the Tigris of Baghdad 118/8 In the luster of her tress and eyebrow, I saw the sharp sword and the armor of Mazd 129/5 *Sometimes we see this same virtuosity from him in the form of a separated simile: In her affection, honey; in her anger, a sting; in her kindness, nectar; and in her wrath, poison 26/9 With her cheek, a bird; with her hair, a rope; with her eyelashes, a dagger; with her eyebrow, a bow 54/11 Her view is the veil of character, her generosity the cloud of action, her resolve the celestial sphere, and her wisdom the earth, for example 69/24 The kingdom is a ship, the accidents are the sea, and the tyranny of the captain is justice, and nothing more 136/12 79 My brain is the region of knowledge, my thought is the expanse of his domain, his chest is the sea of art, and his heart is a unique jewel 450/1 *The use of inverted simile (reverse) and the substitution of the original for the derivative is also among the artistic offspring of Bahar.
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