Analysis of the emotional function of the image in contemporary lyric poetry(Case study: Ghazals of Shahriyar and Ebtehaj)

Poetic images have acquired a new nature and function with the transition from tradition to modernity. Until the constitutional period, fantasies often had descriptive and aesthetic aspects. Contemporary With constitutionalism, the function of images has also changed. Following the emergence of Romanticism, poets' self-awareness of their social status, the emergence of individual and social rights, the emergence of poetic individuality and some other factors, images have a tool to express individual and social emotions. New functions such as: influence on emotion, coexistence with emotion and meaning and signification were previously known as artistic features in the images of Western love poetry. Shahriyar and Ebtehaj are semi-traditionalist poets, most of whose images have new functions. The same factor distinguishes these poets in terms of the coexistence of the image with the emotion and the impact on the emotions of the audience. This research analyzes the emotional features and functions of images in the sonnets of these two prominent contemporary poets. The methodology of the article is descriptive-analytical using library resources.