An analysis of simile and its significance in Shafi’ee Kadkani’s poetry

Simile is the most significant and main basis of all imagery knacks in poetry. So its analysis can be useful for having a good knowledge of aesthetic aspects of the poem, understanding its meaning and knowing the poet’s attitudes, trends and style. In this paper, Shafi’ee kadkani’s use of similes in his two collections of poems has been analyzed in an attempt to find some of his poetry’s style features, literary innovations, mental tendencies and artistic aspects. For this purpose, the simile has been classified in accordance with traditional rhetoric first, and then creative and cliché similes have been extracted and studied. After classification and analysis of vehicles in eight semantic fields, the two prominent characteristics of simile i.e. musical and naturalistic characters have been examined. The results of the study show that Shafi’ee Kadkani is very interested in Nature, and the essence of the music of the poetry, especially inner music, is very important for him, so that he tries to observe the musical aspects of the words in choosing the tenor and vehicle for most of the similes.