Semantic and Aesthetical Function of Constellation in Rumi’s Sonnet

Astronomical elements and expressions have always had a remarkable presence in the content and form of nation literature, especially Persian poetry. Complete perception of a majority of poems highly depends on understanding the semantic relations and aesthetic details of used astronomical issues and phenomena. Therefore, the present study aims to explain semantic and aesthetic function of consultation, as an important and determinative part of astronomical issues, in Rumi’s sonnets. Being a descriptive-analytical research, the current study reveals that Rumi has used the names of consultations 117 times. The most frequent ones include Aries (whose contemporaneity with the sun has depicted an impressive image), Leo, Taurus, and Libra. The most important implicit contents by these consultation are related contents to spiritual resuscitation, approximation, mystical love, demand, and the benefit from the presence of leaders, criticizing carnal affiliation and condemned world. Due to Rumi’s mystical-eloquence use of the names of consultations in the verses containing several images, figural function of consultation names has higher frequency, 139 times, depicted in the form of symbol, ambiguity, irony, and simile. Image mixture is one the remarkable parts in his sonnets including symbolic similes, irony-symbol, and simile-irony. Rumi has benefited from symbols in other images. Moreover, he has emphasized irony notably. The names of some consultations, also, have been used in ambiguous structure, especially proportionality.