Compound simile in Farokhi Sistani and Manoochehri's works

Compound simile (antapodosis) is a kind of simile in which two things are likened to each other. The vehicle in this type of simile is more than one part and the image resulting from the simile is compound. In compound simile different parts of vehicle are intended by the poet to mix with each other and create a unified whole and link to tenor. It has been said that the image created by compound simile can be made into a painting. This type of simile has surpassed Khorasani style and eventually materializes in a compact form in the poems of Iraqi and Hindi styles. Farokhi Sistani and Manoochehri Damghani are among the significant poets in Khorasani style who have made use of simile and in particular compound simile to create images and imagination. In Farokhi’s works, compound simile has more of an aristocratic and military side to it and involves praise and description of loyal families. But Manoochehri who is a naturalist poet whose poems are complicated, compound simile is used to create natural images. In this respect he has dealt with image-making in a more artistic manner. In the works of the two poets certain structures with compound simile can be found. The first type of such structures is allegorical simile. This study investigates and analyzes the structure of couplets and closed couplets with compound simile in the works of these two poets.