Metaphors in Nizami Ganjavi’s poetry
Keywords:
Nizami, poetry, metaphor, power of God, mysteries of creation,, world as condemned, sky as condemnedAbstract
A metaphor arises when a poet transfers a characteristic feature of a concept in fiction to another concept without mentioning the name of that concept. This artistic process is abundant in Nizami's work. There is no other poet in world poetry who creates so many figurative expression and metaphors as Nizami Ganjavi.
The author of the article presents the Persian verses with metaphors, his philological translations and interpretations for the condemned concepts such as “earth” and “sky”. Many of these metaphors are abbreviated in literary translations and given in the ordinary form.
Probably this article will be an absolute step in the perfect study of Nizami Ganjavi's thousands of metaphors.
