Analysis of the Frequency of the Image of  Tulip in Persian Poetry

The Persian poets have made use of ‘tulip’ in their poems because its colour nd shape which has made it possible to depict many images. This paper studies the numerous and various images of ‘tulip’. We study the evolution of this image in different periods of Persian literary history as well as poets’ creativity. The author tries to study and classify all images for tulip in the poems of 63 poets. This paper shows the initiator and imitator poets in this regard. This is a library study in which for the purpose of analysis, tables and charts are used to investigate the frequency and images of tulip.203 images were obtained by analyzing these poems and eliminating redundancies. The images refer to tulip and face, tulip and goblet, tulip and blood, tulip and fire, tulip and bereavement and so forth. ‘Farrokhi’ and ‘Sa-ib’ originated the most creative images of tulip. The images of tulip were more diversified in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries.