A study of the color motif in Biddle Dehlavi’s sonnets from a rhetorical- linguistic perspective

Biddle Dehlavi,a famous Indian poet, is a poet and illustrator who took the word “color” out of its specific meaning and turns it into various and pleasant forms with a relative and compositional mind and with that word, the network has created a very wide association. The purpose of this researches to study and analyze some of Biddle’s illustrations and innovations with color motifs from a linguistic and to rhetorical perspective and to explain and clarify its connection with his ideas and thoughts.

The present research has been done by descriptive- analytical method and library method. The main source of the work was Bidel Dehlavi’s Divan, edited by Akbar Bahdarvand, which was published by Negah Publications.

In Biddles Divan, the word “color” has been used more than seven hundred times, so much so that in addition to the “poet of mirrors” attributed to him by Dr. Shafiee Kadkani, he can also be called “poet of color”. color is used in Biddeles poems sometimes linguistically and sometimes in literary and rhetorical structure. Sometimes it is intended in the literal sense, and sometimes in the virtual and unreal meaning. Thus, this element has played a significant role in shaping the meaning and form of his poems.

From a rhetorical point of view, the remarkable frequency of new and abnormal metaphors with the element of color has added to the ambiguity and richness of Biddles speech. The images that Biddle made with the word color are more in line with his mystical beliefs and are summarized in the concept of transformation, destruction and annihilation, which he used in the form of rare metaphors, similes and pristine and fresh allusions and it shows a world far from the mind, chaotic and surreal. From linguistic point of view, additional compounds made with “color” have the highest frequency, especially compounds such as “color circulation” which are related to the mysticism of the poet’s existential unity.