Word Choice: An Approach to the Personality Analysis of Qeysar Aminpour

The choice of words and the representation of their structure and function are of great significance in linguistics. Based on the two principles of selection and collocation, each word finds unique linguistic-semantic features and conceptual-cognitive actions; and readers can understand both the text and the writer via their knowledge of the words. This study analyzes linguistic-semantic features and conceptual-cognitive actions of the words employed in Qeysar Aminpour’s poetry and views them as a personal representation of the poet based on Daniel Nettle’s table of five personality patterns. The results of the study show that Qeysar’s personality is multifaceted. In his Breathing the Morning, he is an extrovert due to such features as passion, excitement, and sociability. In Sudden Mirrors, he becomes prudent because of his perfectionism, mental organization, goal-orientedness, and social interactions. In Flowers Are All Sunflowers, he turns into an open-minded figure following his imagination, creativity, belief in the supernatural, and mystical and artistic tendencies. And in The Grammar of Love, traits like aversion to social pains, kindness and lovingness, and attraction to morality makes him introvert and compliant.