Investigating the conceptual metaphor of love in Sa’adi 's Sonnet based on the theories of Lakoff and Johnson

It can be said that in the theory of conceptual metaphor, the metaphors depend on the conceptual and semantic relationship of intermediate words, which act as a tool for understanding and conceiving a kind of human understanding of phenomena and abstract and tangible world affairs, as well. The literature on conceptual metaphor theory has various origins and destinations through which it explains the concepts of the mind to the reader in a tangible way. The main purpose of this research is to study poems of Sa’adi's Sonnets whose field of origin or destination with the concept of "love” has been paid attention by poet.

The research method of this research is descriptive - analytical based on library studies and the documentation method based on the selection of lyric poems in which love and its semantic clusters have been paid more attention.

According to studies, love has a high value and place Sa’adi's words. Sa’adi' s view on the issue of love is a positive and very imaginative view.

The research results indicate that the conceptual metaphor of love in Sa’adi's world view and intellectual view, which is itself derive from a conceptual system has overshadowed the structure of the poet's mind and thought. In Sa’adi's lyric poems, love for him is enlightening, life- giving, changeable, healing, purifying, and a restless phenomenon, not only relieves the heart but also languishes it, and love is a murderous robber.