Rhetorical Value of Bound and Omission in Sanai Ghaznavi’s Odes

This research studies the rhetorical values of Sanai Ghaznavi’s odes. Sanai Ghaznavi, the Wise, is one of the greatest Persian poets of the fifth and sixth century (Lunar year). Sanai’s Divan consists of more than 13,000 verses and includes poems in various forms. His odes are his richest poems. Like his other poems, these poems are extremely high in literary value. Investigation of rhetorical values, from the view of semantics, reveals an important aspect of the literary value of the work. An important argument in semantics is bound and omission which clarifies rhetoric in speech, especially in the discussion of literary bound and omission, and has greater literary value. In the current study, based on the established rules of rhetoric, bound and omission, especially its types, has been explored from different perspective. After their investigation, based on the rules and arguments of semantics, the related frequencies and factors relevant to effectiveness and rhetoric of verses are investigated in his odes. Sanai has used, effectively, different types of omission with various methods. In his odes, the frequency of omission devices is more than 110 cases and the frequency of other items is 45. Moreover, he used omission of qualifier on the qualified in nearly 120 couplets and omission of qualified on the qualifier in 25 couplets. Due to his writings in ethical and spiritual domains as well as his interest in wisdom and sermon, Sanai drew upon rhetorical techniques such as “omission and bound” in order to deeply influence his addressees. Therefore, using omission and applying its various methods, he had different intentions and purposes in mind. In addition to the items mentioned before, some other issues such as exaggeration in description or eulogy, motivation and instigation, ignoring the non-qualified, glory, limiting the way or a mean to an end to one specific method, belittling the non-qualified, warning, expressing hatred toward something, allusion to non-qualified and etc. were introduced as well.