Metonym function in Shams's sonnets

Irony as an indirect and reflective expression of various issues, while improving the artistic and creative aspect of literary speech, gives the poem and writer the opportunity to convey difficult meanings and themes with a well-known, yet attentive, and artistically appealing tone familiar to the mind of the audience to be transmitted and internalized. In this study, first, after a brief look at the views expressed on the irony as well as its artistic values and literary functions, the qualitative and quantitative aspects of irony in Shams’s sonnets were studied. The results of the investigations revealed that Mowlana used a high frequency of near ironies in his poems. One of the reasons for this can be the simplicity and use of the poet's clear image as well as the result that the Rumi’s reliance on the meaning, not on the form. Moreover, the generality of Mowlana’s audience made the long mystical concepts to be appear in plain terms.