Elements of Rhetorical Satire in Seyyed Hassan Hosseini’s Poetry

In verse lines of Seyyed Hassan Hosseini, well-known poet of post–Islamic revolution era, a good variety of verbal, structural and rhetorical satires are unveiled. Among these, the satires created through employing potentialities of rhetorical devices are of a great distinct and that is owing to a unique view and fresh presentation and also owing to a refuse in repetition of ordinary and most-used norms in writing satires. Moreover, broad functions of rhetorical devices used in satirical versification have been unearthed via close reading and deep analysis of Seyyed Hassan Hosseini's verse lines. The extensive functions of rhetorical devices in satirical versification have got two distinct aspects: first; artistic expression and decline of emphasis which are a notable measure and device in poetry hermeneutics and in taking satire far from popular and surface view, putting it out of time borders. Second; characterization of the specific role of rhetorical devices in creating satire, that means rhetorical devices, in addition to their ordinary functions in non-satirical poetry, cause novel potentialities when writing satires and this, in turn, leads in eradicating the creativity limits and in making poetry escape from repeating old and ordinary norms.