The Criticism and Study of Simile in Seif Farghani's Odes

Simile as the main element of imagination has a leading function in the creation of various types of poetic images. Seif Farghani is an image maker poet who، via the aid of this element، takes step in the field of original and inspiring image making. In this research، the similes of Seif Farghani’s odes، are investigated from different aspects like types of simile، materials of simile، new simile، simile instruments and their static and dynamic nature and، at the end، their statistic analysis will be presented so that، in addition to knowing how to employ expressive instruments to create poetry and their impact on the poet’s style and language، the basic criteria of Seif Farghani’s poetry aesthetics would be presented to the reader. This study proves that، regarding types of simile، the poet has more tendency to impact similes and addition simile، singular to singular simile and sensory to sensory ones، and considering the formal structure subtrahend simile has the most frequency in his poems. While the poet has sometimes embodied several formal structures in one simile which has aroused innovation، he is also the inventor of novel similes which are unique in their own type. As to different materials of simile، the poet، according to his own particular thought، has more tendencies toward spiritual and abstract concepts whereas، from the moshabah beh point of view، he has dedicated the highest frequency to instruments and objects in his images. The study of the angle of simile shows that only about 1/3 of his similes are with open angle and innovative and the rest are recurring and his poetic images are static rather than dynamic and animated