Creating Poetic Images and Themes Using Geographic Names in Mohammad Ali Bahmani’s Sonnets

In Persian literature writers and poets have had more or less a special interest in geographic knowledge and knowing regions, countries, cities, mountains, rivers and …; and have produced poetic images and themes by means of these elements. Geographic names, which are divided into two categories of general and special, have a wide reflection in contemporary poetry. One of the successful contemporary poets in the field of sonnet is Mohammad Ali Bahmani who has used these elements in producing poetic images and themes. The aim of this article, using an analytical-descriptive approach, has been to extract Bahmani’s techniques in creating poetic images and themes using geographic names and to illustrate the frequency of the mostly used names in his sonnets. The findings of this study shows that Bahmani has mainly used geographical general names among which sky, city, house and mountain have been used more than others. Bahmani has used almost all rhetoric techniques for creating poetic images and themes, while simile has been used more than others.