A Semiotic-semantic analysis of the loneliness discourse in Sonnets of Shamseddin Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, and poems of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet

Abstract In the semiotic-semantic approach, the process of creating meaning is linked to the perceptual sensory conditions. Therefore, this paper presents a semantic-semiotic analysis of the loneliness discourse in the Sonnets of Hafez and the poems of the Russian poet Afanasy Fet. The perceptual sensory approach of this paper involves all features of discourse including Perception, Intuition, integrity of meaning, discourse stress, sensory-perceptual contemplation center, indicative operations, tension space, tensions, effective values, rhythm, emotional representation, perspective and prophylaxis, stimulation and emotional readiness, affective emotionality, excitement and evaluation (value dimension). Since no discourse can be independent and separate from the other collective discourses before it, and the Russian poet has also translated Hafez’s poems into Russian and has had a deep knowledge of the Eastern culture, the present research intends to analyze the creation process of the fluid flow of the meaning of loneliness in Hafez’s and Fet’s poems. The research results show that both Russian and Persian poet have induced the belief and created the process of narrative-tension of loneliness in their poems by using all the elements of perceptual discourse which include effective verbs, lexical and emotional scenes, outwards and inward, pre-tension and post-tension, hence two emotional and cognitive types are placed into interaction with each other. This leads to complaining about loneliness and the formation of a value system (bliss in privacy).