Binary Oppositions in Afif Bakhtari’s Poetries

Najjarian, Mohammad Reza; Rafaat, Sayed Ahmad

doi:10.22091/jls.2024.11046.1617

Binary Oppositions in Afif Bakhtari’s Poetries

Document Type : Grammatical-rhetorical

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¹ Member of the academic faculty of Yazd University

² Ph.D. Student in Persian language and literature department, Language and literature faculty, Yazd University,

10.22091/jls.2024.11046.1617

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Afif Bakhtari is one of the well-known contemporary poets of Afghanistan, who was born in Mazar-e-Sharif city of Balkh province in 1962 and died in the same city in 2017. About five collections of his poems have been published and most of his poems are written in the form of Ghazal. Bakhtari is one of the poets whose poetry collections have attracted many readers among the academic community. The main purpose of this research is to investigate how binary oppositions are used in Afif Bakhtari's poetries. Structuralists believe that the examination of binary oppositions in literary texts can help us to better understand the text and open layers of the creator's thoughts. Based on this, the present paper has investigated and analyzed the binary oppositions in Afif Bakhtri's poetries with a descriptive-analytical method and a structuralism approach. All binary oppositions in Bakhtari’s peotries have been classified and analyzed in three general levels: lexical, literary and intellectual. The findings show that implicit lexical oppositions have the highest frequency and literary binary oppositions have the lowest frequency. At the same time, the poet's intellectual binary opposition mostly revolves around the opposition of death/life, and this has led to the formation of oppositions such as sadness/joy, autumn/spring, and captivity/freedom in his poems.

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