Comparative analysis of one poem of Rumi's Masnavi and its English translation based on the theory of Cohesion of Halliday and Hasan

The authors used a descriptive-analytical and statistical method based on Cohesion Theory of Halliday and Hassan (1985). they aimed to compare the application frequency of grammatical and lexical cohesion factors and the degree of cohesion and coherence in an eight-couplet poem from the first book of Rumi's Masnavi and its English translation and answer the following questions:1. According to the cohesion theory of Halliday and Hasan, what is the degree of cohesion and coherence in this poem of Rumi’s Masnavi and its translation? how are the cohesion factors distributed?2. considering the comparative analysis of the frequency of cohesion and coherence in the source and target texts, to what extent has the translator been successful in transferring the concepts?based on Halliday’s model, the frequency of lexical and grammatical cohesion factors and percentage of cohesion and coherence in the poems were calculated. Considering Halliday’s Approach of Equivalence in Translation, closeness of cohesion (94.6% , 96.4%) and coherence percentages (92.8% , 91%) in two texts as well as similarity of the distribution of cohesion factors, which were very close together, except in equivalence and synonymy factors, can demonstrate the translator success in reproducing style and meaning of the source text.