Image in Orfi Shirazi's Sonnets

One of the beautiful aspects of Orfi's sonnets is their images. Thus, this paper tries to reveal the imagery elements of Orfi’s sonnets. Therefore, such elements like simile, irony, figure, metaphor, paradox, and synesthesia have been analyzed. In the realm of similes, Orfi has more often used concise simile and eloquence. Such images are abstract, intellectual and tangible. Orfi’s similes are various in structure. The subject of the likened is often the poet, the beloved and abstract concepts, and the subject of that to which a thing is likened is often non-abstract elements, like nature and objects. Of different kinds of metaphor, irony and personification arrays are more frequent and also creative. The componential elements of his imagination from the viewpoint of the thing metaphored mostly include nature and objects and from the viewpoint of that to which a thing is metaphored the beloved and the poet.In his sonnets, he himself is the predominant element in making abstract concepts distinct.Verbal metaphor is another feature of his imagery that is manifest in lines or verses. Paradox appears in the form of explanation or predication which is used less in comparison with previous elements; synesthesia limitedly appears in connecting two apparent senses with each other or an apparent sense with a mental task.