Domestication Strategies in the Poem "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" Based on Lotman's Theory

Literary works are sometimes the result of the domestication and creativity that have occurred when transferring the text from the foreign semiotic system to the domestic system. Although Farokhzad's poem Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season was inspired by Eliot's Wasteland, each of these two literary works is unique in its own way. In spite of the fact that changes brought about by transferring a text to the target literary culture are more pronounced than domestication, the text undergoes changes in many aspects, including literary structure in order to conform to the target audience. Moreover, by shifting, increasing, and decreasing the constituent elements of the source text, the poet domesticates it according to the literary and cultural requirements of the Persian-speaking community. This study aims to explain domestication strategies when transferring the texts from meta-system (source text) to system (target text) according to Lotman's theory. Results show that these changes have substantially given a sense of indigenous and domestic literary identity to Farokhzad's poetry and led to phenomenal creativity.