Examination of Onomatopoeia in Sohrab Sepehri's Hasht Ketab

Language is a mental system which appears as an instrument or phonetic structure and its main role is communication and transmission of idea among people. Using different language rules and disciplines and making different types of words, people try to communicate with each other in different contexts. Therefore, obviously, language is not separated from people’s life and activities. In fact, language accompanies people from the beginning to the end of their life. The present study is about the use of onomatopoeia in Sepehri’s Hasht Ketab. The results show that Sepehri, uses onomatopoeia abundantly in his poetic language, and it helps the reader to understand his text better. The theoretical basis for this study is the views of the Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen and others referred to in the book A Glossary of Persian Onomatopoeia. These people name as onomatopoeia any word between whose sound and meaning there is a natural relationship.