Incidental rhetoric (Case study: Rhetorical stylistics of Mohtashem Kashani's poetry)

Document Type : Rhetoric

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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

10.22091/jls.2024.11054.1618

Abstract

One of the schools of Persian poetry, which is apparently consistent with its new and European definition, is the School of Occurrence. Vasukht is also a type of story telling that, according to researchers, Mohtsham Kashani invented this style and brought it to its peak. A cursory reflection on the studies that have been done in the field of the poetry of the school of Oqar and Vasuht shows that most of them agree that the poets of this school do not use rhetorical techniques. According to these researches, the language of poetry is free from occurrences and devoid of literary tricks. The question of this research is whether the poetry of the School of Occurrence, especially the poetry of Mohatsham, is really a simple, unparalleled and devoid of literary artifices and poetic exaggerations? In order to explain the truth or falsity of general claims, a statistical work with accurate meters and criteria is needed. This essay, which is written with a quantitative-statistical method and with a stylistic approach, by examining some literary art forms in a certain amount of Mohtsham's poetry and comparing it with the scale of prominent poets of Iraqi styles and Handi shows that not only Mohtsham's poetry is not empty and devoid of rhetorical tricks, but the number and frequency of his poetry is sometimes more than that of Iraqi and Indian poets. Also, based on the data and results of this research, it is necessary to determine the true rhetoric of their poetry by doubting the famous saying and contradicting the common assumption, by reviewing the works of the poets and conducting detailed and statistical research.

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