Comparison of Simile in the poetry of Forough farrokhzad and jaleh Esfahani: Structural and content analysis
2023
Simile is one of the main elements of imagery and according to many scholars of rhetoric, it is the most important art of expression and poetry is known for it. Simile can be useful for understanding the aspects of beauty and the concept of poetry, as well as the poet's attitude and tendency and poetic style. Forough Farrokhzad and Jaleh Esfahani are among the contemporary poets who have beautifully used this element and its elements in different ways in expressing their thoughts, feelings, emotions and worldview and have created pristine and original images. In the present study, which was carried out in a descriptive-analytical way, the similes in three poetry notebooks of each of these two poets have been discussed and investigated in terms of structure and content. From a structural point of view, in the poetry of both poets, eloquent, detailed, tangible similes and singular to singular similes contain a larger volume of notebooks than other types of similes, which is also shown by statistics and graphs. The meaning and content of similes in Forough's poem can be divided into five main areas: "philosophical, social, psychological, femininity and description". The investigations carried out from the semantic dimension in Forough's similes show his thoughts of despair, pessimism, despair, loneliness and death thoughts due to the bitter experiences of his married life and the lack of support and distance from his children in the first stage of being a poet; But in the second stage of his poetry, we witness intellectual and inner evolution and completely dynamic and meaning-seeking thoughts in his poetry; In fact, Forough seeks to build his ideal world in this world. On the other hand, the semantic and content direction of the similes of Jale Esfahani's poem is divided into four time domains including "past, present, future and absolute". The frequency of concepts related to the present time domain compared to other time domains in her similes is significant. The semantic direction of the similes in Zhaleh's poem shows that she is a poet full of hope and enthusiasm. She firmly and steadfastly resists the hardships and problems of the times and uses all his efforts to make his dreams come true.