Analysis of Mena Incident Monodies

The Mena incident in 2015, which resulted in the death of a large number of pilgrims of Kaaba, is considered by the Iranian poets as a historical context and led to the formation of a new flow in contemporary monody. A collection of these works has been published under the name of “Mena minus many” by Literature County publishing. The high frequency of sonnet among the poems provided a ground for conducting a research on the correlation of its textual levels with the historical context. Accordingly, Mena's monodies in the format of sonnet were studied at three levels of music, rhetoric (traditional rhetoric) and theme. The results of textual investigations show that these sonnets are conceptual and contextual, and their three levels, having a reciprocal relationship, concentrate on transiting an explicit message to the reader; In a way that its two levels of music and rhetoric have been formed, using instruments such as the allegory to Ashura, avoiding of verbal figures, the frequency of sentences with a secondary motives of regret and grief, as well as limited metaphorical imagination, along with the main idea that is informing and describing Mena and its consequences. Other sub-motives also have been used by the poets such as “sanctification of the dead”, “content approximation with the event of Karbala” and “rebuking and threatening the dealers of Mena” in order for thematization and making links between the text and the context.