The Nature of Parrot and its Rhetorical Reflections in Persian Poetry

Parrot is a well-known bird in Persian poetry, and various features of it have been implicated to form literary themes and poetics. Scrutinizing literary works represents how Persian poets living in different geographical regions, knew the natural and biological features of parrots closely and utilized them to create literary images, similes, and rhetorical associations. However, the bird has not been native to Iran. In this article, by examining Persian poetry, we show how much the natural features of the parrot are helpful to study poems, enlighten their elegance and minutes, and help to unravel the text difficulties. Perusing cases found in Persian poetic texts shows that among the natural features of parrots, physical and visual ones play a significant role in constructing rhetorical images based on similarity. Meanwhile, the green color has created one of the strongest and most diverse networks of associations around parrots.