Symbolic Motifology of Death in Contemporary Social Sonnets

Symbolist is one of the important and outstanding features of contemporary social sonnets. In these poems, some of the motifs have multiple meanings so they have became to symbols. Symbols and motifs are significant in analysis of literary works and stylistic studies, so by correct understanding of these symbolic motifs we will understand the perspective of the poet, his mentality and spirit, the level of thought and the political-social situation of his life period. Death is one of the oldest motifs that has been in the center of attention for a long time due to its tremendous impact on a person, and many works of art have created about that. From the total of 1236 sonnets written between 1350 SH to 1384 SH and collected in the book of Contemporary Social Sonnets, “death” is the motif of 308 sonnets, i.e. 25% of them. According to stylistic studies, the words "night", "day and morning", "silence and darkness", "spring", "reservoir and winter", "tree", "garden", "wind", "soil", "fire" " and "sun and sunshine" are motifs that came from the nature. Because of their multiple meanings, this motifs have symbolic function. This article tries to analyze these symbolic motifs with a descriptive-analytical method and express their exact meaning in some verses of contemporary social sonnets. Keywords: contemporary social sonnets, death, motif, motifology,