An Analysis of the Syntactic Structures of Nader Naderpour’s Poetry Based on Al-Jurjani’s Theory of Order

Grammatical roles and functions of elements of speech comprise the syntactic structures of language. Farsi, considering its syntactic structure, is a free language in which the order of words is based on the speaker’s mentality, philosophy, and dominant thoughts. Grammarians study syntactic structures from a linguistic point of view disregarding their literary functions. Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, among rhetoricians, has studied the arrangement and order of words. According to his “theory of order” all syntactic structures and arrangements are a result of meaning construction in the speaker’s mind and thought. This article studies the frequency of omission and rearrangement of major components and syntactic structures of Naderpour’s poetry based on the theory of order. It indicates that his poetry is a varied and yet proportionate collection of common and fluent structures of Farsi. It is a product of the balance between meaning and syntax as well as the arrangement and order of the poet’s thought. His deep mental experiences as well as intimate and accessible poetic thought enable him to have a balance between the mind and the language where the former forms the meaning and the latter expresses it, so that his poetry is straightforward and lucid in conveying its meaning.