A Study of Imagination in the poem SHakeh and Khan Mansour

Imagination that is the key element in poem, is the communication bridge between the feelings and thoughts and the poet's words that emotion is conveyed through it and it is the criterion measure for a literary work. Shakeh and Khan Mansoor are two Ilami Kurdish poets who like Rumi and Shams Tabrizi had been murid and murad(disciple and master) and own a poem book in Kalhori dialect which has been collected by the efforts of Mohammad Ali Ghasemi and Ali Reza Khani. These powerful poets have used imagery to explain and convey meanings in their poem book. Metaphor is the most important pillar of expression ability and its analysis in terms of structure and content can also be an expression of poets own language. This paper has attempted to assess metaphor’s theoretical bases using analytical - descriptive methods by giving examples of metaphors used in this poem book and describing them in terms of form, use of connectives and quasis, clears to readers the poet's ability how to convey concepts and explain ends of words and influence of words of these two to.