Poetic Imagery in Persian and Arabic Ashurai Poetry (Metaphorical Imagery)

Imagery is one of the basic subjects in the domain of aesthetics of text، which has been noticed by the men of literary taste and art from the past. The poets have regarded imagery as the integral part of their poetry and the critics have analyzed and investigated the literary works from this perspective. Imagery criticism، especially in the temporary era، has been attended to by the men of literature. Furthermore، Ashurai poetry، as an enormous portion of the nationally committed literary heritage، has always represented Ashura. This literary art has always been after beautiful and obvious depicting in form and content of the events and causes of this enormous movement. Clarifying this part of the literary beauties in the contemporary Ashurai poetry is the aim of the present study using an analytic-descriptive methodology and based on the American school principles of the comparative literature. For this purpose، we investigated the poems composed by over 40 poets in the last century of the two nations. To this end، after extracting metaphorical images from the selected poems of the two cited languages، with equal number of these poems، the researchers applied tables and figures to provide the reader with a suitable statistical view of the issue. The results revealed the width and variety of the images in Persian poetry، the innovation and presentation of the new images in Persian more that English، the outstanding presence of the romantic and mystical elements in Persian Ashurai poetry، and the variety and vastness of the elements composing these images in Persian poetry.