The Analysis of “Eavan e Madaen” Based on "Jakobson’s Theory of Communication"

Khaghani Shervani (520-595, AD/the Hejira) is one of the greatest Iranian balladeers and of the great poets of Azerbaijani style. The extent of the areas in Khaghani’s speech,his skill in using new and pristine sense of meaning, the accuracy of the descriptions and using poetic tricks in the creation of artistic images have promoted his poetic realm so that entering to it has become difficult and sometimes a wish to the user of Persian literature. The appearance of new literary theories in the field of literature has provided an opportunity to the literary text addressees to present different and new readings from literary texts.This article attempts to analyze Khaghani’s most famous ballad, “Qasidat of Ctesiphon Porch (Eavan e Madaen)”, based on " Jakobson’s theory of communication ". This theory is based on three basic elements: sender, receiver and message and three minor factors: context, code and channel. Each of these six language dimensions/factors has emotive, conative, aesthetic/poetic, referential, metalingual and phatic functions, respectively. The result of research shows that the dominant function in this Qasidat regarding Khaghani’s artistic and poetic features is referential.