A study on aesthetic of exaggeration in the Indo-Persian poetry

Exaggeration as one of the main devices of Indian style poetry is the subject of this article. The article examines methods of making exaggeration and the artistic role of hyperbole in Persian poetry at 11th century through the exaggerated themes, the techniques of exaggeration, and the artistic function of this manner. It also points to the alignment of the exaggerated style of the Persian poets with the aesthetics of exaggeration in Indian rhetoric. Although the exaggeration was the aesthetics erea between Persian poetry and Indian rhetoric, in Iran it became the focal point of opposition to the Indo-Persian poetry. Iranian critics and scholors have considered the exaggerations of imaginative poets to be the main cause of the decline of Persian poetry in the 11th and 12th centuries. While pointing to the theoretical foundations of exaggeration, the paper emphasizes that the style of exaggeration is consistent with the thin-minding and atomistic attitude, and that the Indo-Persian style without the element of exaggeration falls short of its nature.