Conceptual Metaphors of Imam Hussein and his companions in Fadaei Mazandarani’s Divan

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Department of Persian Language and Literature Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22077/jcrl.2024.7586.1125

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Fadaei Mazandarani is one of the ritual poets of the Qajar period, who has a divan with four parts in the form of Tarkib band. His poems are full of imaginary images and figures of speech, but they have not been studied as they should be. This library research aims to examine the conceptual metaphors of Imam Hussain and his companions in Fadai’s Divan, looking for the frequent conceptual metaphors of the poet and analyzing its connection with the poet's time and thought. For this purpose, verses with conceptual metaphors were first extracted from the Divan of the poet and after classifying the findings, the obtained data were presented in a descriptive-analytical way. The results show that the conceptual metaphors used for Imam and his companions are much more than for the enemy army. The variety of metaphors in different areas such as heavenly bodies, animals, plants, jewels and prophets is high and this has created beautiful and significant themes and images. After Imam, the most metaphors are related to Hazrat Abbas, Hazrat Qasim and Hazrat Zainab. The most frequent metaphor for the person of the imam is "king", which is probably influenced by the position of the king during the poet's life, and after that, the sun, moon, gem and lion are the most frequent.

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Journal of Ritual Culture and Literature
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 5
September 2024
Pages 1-18

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