Synesthesia as a Conceptual Metaphor: An Analysis of Synesthesia in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poems

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1 farsi literature department, farsi literature and foreign languages, Tabriz university, IRI

2 Tabriz University

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This paper gives an insight to aesthetics from the viewpoint of conceptual metaphor theory to analyze the aesthetics in the poetry of Sohrab Sepehri. With regard to Ullmann’s hierarchy of senses some of cognitive science researchers have considered aesthetics as a type of conceptual metaphors; like in a conceptual metaphor, where a concrete conceptual domain is mapped to an abstract one in order to clarify and enrich it, in aesthetics, elements regarding weaker senses are mapped to the domain of stronger senses to give a richer understanding of concepts.

This paper tries to review frequent aesthetic constructs in Sepehri’s poetry with an analytical method to show the embodiment implied in his apparently abstract work. Investigating multiple poems of Sepehri show that almost all of his aesthetic constructs are instances of conceptual metaphors. In other words, all his aesthetic constructs give embodiments of abstract concepts and thus, his poetry is genuinely embodied and earthly, despite its abstract appearance.

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Persian Language and Literature

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Available Online from 31 January 2024

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  • Receive Date: 10 December 2023
  • Revise Date: 08 January 2024
  • Accept Date: 16 January 2024

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