A Sociological View of Sanai's Sonnets

Sanai is one of the greatest and most influential poets on the overall process of the Persian Sonnet in the sixth century. The aim of this paper is to offer a sociological analysis of Sanai’s Sonnets through a literary-sociological approach. After giving a short explanation about “sociology of literature,” “literary sociology,” and “sociology of sonnet,” this study, based on Sanai’s sonnets, attempts to offer his ideology, influenced by that of general public’s in his age. Then the Iranians’ cultural life and its aesthetic reflection in Sanai’s Sonnets are analyzed. Besides, this study examines economic factors, social psychology, love, lover and beloved, poetic images, and literary elements as its research domain.