Fiery Minstrel A Study of Espand (Wild Rue) in Persian Poetry
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
Masroure Mokhtari
1
(Faculty Member of University of Mohaghegh Ardabili)
Hossein Arian
2
(Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch)
Saeed Tavakoli
3
(. MA in Persian Language and Literature, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili)
Keywords: سبک هندی, شعر فارسی, فرهنگ عامه, Persian literature, Persian poetry, ادبیات غنایی, Lyrics, folklore, ادبیّات فارسی, مضمون اسپند, Notion, Espand, Indian literary style,
Abstract :
Since the primarily emersion of poetry Persian poets have been assisted with the help of various capacities of language and the words in order to discover new and original notions. Despite many researches conducted, there are still some noteworthy frequently-used words in Persian literature that haven't yet been the subject of any research. Espand (or Wild Rue) is one of them. The present research is to study the evolutionary and developmental areas of meaning of the word since preliminary stages of Persian poetry, i.e. the third century, up to the present. The results reveal that Khorasani and Iraqi styles of poetry didn't have acceptable diversity of introducing new notions, and they were classified in some general motifs as averting a whammy, analogy for the nevus, analogy for the pupil of eye, etc. However, with the advent of Indian style and the rise of meticulously visionary poets, this word has been widely used in such a way that hundreds of lines could be obtained through the works composed in this style. In some way, this word occasionally has been used as substantive model. Despite emersion and exercise of this word in contemporary poetry, it doesn't vary significantly and are almost the same as in both Khorasani and Iraqi styles.
38.هدایت، صادق. (1356). نیرنگستان، چاپ دوم، تهران: جاویدان.
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