Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors of the Field of Love in Book “Oraq al-Ward” by Mustafa Sadeq al-Rafi

Metaphor, a concept that first started with the book "Metaphors We Live by" (1980) by Likoff and Johnson, considers metaphor not as a tool for creating beauty and artistic invention, but as a tool for thinking that It flows automatically in human life; The secondary meanings and rhetorical purposes of the theologian are always hidden behind the invisible veils of permission, including conceptual metaphor, and the analysis of conceptual metaphor in literary texts reveals the hidden layers of the writer's hidden meanings and purposes to the audience..The book "Oraq al-Ward" (1931) is the highest and most creative book of Mustafa Sadegh Al-Rafi'i (1837-1937) in terms of content and form, which has reached the stage of full maturity. The subject of this book is love and full of original illustrations. But it remains to be seen how the author conceptualized love metaphorically. The present article is descriptive-analytical and tries to analyze the conceptual metaphors of this novel based on the theory of George Likoff and Mark Johnson. The purpose of this study is to identify the types of conceptual and visual metaphors of love in Oraq al-Ward. The findings showed that Al-Rafi'i conceptualized the concepts of love in the form of very beautiful visual and structural metaphors with concepts such as perfume, perfume glass, magic, light, flower, volcano, wild animal and man. And light is the most central word in the conceptualization of love. And in fact has given a new meaning to love with imaginative, creative and new metaphors. And because it pursues a mystical goal in the conceptualization of love, it makes everything look good and beautiful and hides the negative aspects of love behind beautiful metaphors. He also combines conceptual metaphors into a structure with his unique style and expresses correspondences