Lexical stylistics of poetry books of Persian-composing poets of Mazandaran province from 1974 to the end of 2018: A layer perspective

Layer stylistics is one of the new stylistic methods that studies how concepts are formed in a language through analysis of the text's stylistic features. Part of the features of a text is determined by the kind of the selection of the lexicon and lexical elements are regarded as one of the basic features of poem's texture. The present study is about the lexical stylistics of poetry books of twenty brilliant Persian-composing poets of Mazandaran province from 1974 to the end of 2018 with a layer perspective. It attempts to analyze twenty two lexical issues from all of the existing stylistic schools, frameworks and genres in the poetry works of the province which somehow reflect the status of poetry in the last four decades. in this study the authors intend to specify the status of Mazandarani poets in contemporary poetry and show how successful they were in the application of lexical issues. Findings with respect to statistical analysis of the data showed that in the poems of Mazandarn's poets lexicons that are abstract,general, non-identified,colloquial, elegant, formal, paradoxical, local, color-based, motif, innovative, mysterious, and lyric are significantly used.research methodology used in this study is a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) using reference documents and reliable Internet sites.