A Study of Layer Stylistics of Molla Hossein Masiha’s Lamentation

Layer stylistics is a disciplined method for investigation of ideological and literary characteristics of each literary peace. The present study aims at examination of the poems of Molla Hossein Masiha (one of the poets of the 13th century in Minab), who versified poems in the realm of lamentations and ceremonial poetry by using this method and literary knowledge. The poems have been compiled in a book called “Unmanned Rakhsh”. The study is of analytical descriptive type and his poetry has been examined in five layers of phonological, syntax, rhetoric, lexical and ideological. The research findings indicate that from the viewpoint of phonology, this poet paid attention to the music of speech, and to reach this goal, he employed various figures of speech like alliteration, repetition, puns and rhymes. His words are marked, official, obsolete and alienated from the type of its allegory. The only prominent point in this field is using marked words. Syntactic layer of his poems includes elements such as sentence styles, verb voice, verb tenses, and grammatical voice. Most sentences in his poems are short and they are simple. Most verbs are simple past, present and verbs voice are active. Informative voice is the bold aspect in his poetry. Molla Hossein Masiha employed poetry for expressing Shia’s ideology. Words, syntax and figures of speech are explicitly employed for his ideological purposes.