Document Type : Original Article
Author
assistant professor of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The history of Persian literature bears witness that writers and poets, in their imagery and thematic creations, have utilized most things they encountered, making them a basis for writing and composing. Accordingly, the use of letters and words—not merely as purely linguistic elements, but as image-making and theme-creating elements—is observed in Persian literature. Of course, the quality and manner of using linguistic elements in an abstract form are directly related to the strength and weakness of poets and writers. Among them, Mirza Abdolqader Bidel, as one of the prominent poets of the Indian Style, while repeating some of the methods of his predecessors in this field, also had special innovations, which are addressed in this research using a descriptive-analytical method. The research findings indicate that Bidel utilized four methods for the abstract application of linguistic elements: visual-imagistic, phonetic, structural, and personification-based. The abstract application of letters, words, and combinations in the poetry of Mirza Abdolqader Bidel is the result of his encounter with language as a living and flexible substance. Based on this approach, some linguistic elements are transformed into visual categories; furthermore, through phonetic and structural changes, a profound semantic shift has occurred in some words. Finally, by personifying letters and words, profound mystical concepts are conveyed to the audience by providing multi-dimensional symbols from certain letters of the alphabet.
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