Exploring Fazel Nazari's sonnets according to the pattern of coherence proposed by Halliday and Hassan

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D student of Persian language and literature, Salman Farsi University of Kazeroon

2 Assistant professor of Persian language and literature, Salman Farsi University of Kazeroon

10.29252/kavosh.2022.17935.3189

Abstract

Sonnet is a poetic form with a brilliant record in the history of Persian poetry and is still favored by those interested in poetry. A contemporary lyricist whose poetry has been shining in recent years is Fazel Nazari. He is known as the "current" poet of the last decade. The theory of coherence proposed by Halliday and Roghayeh Hassan examines literary texts in the domains of grammatical, lexical and logical coherence (semantic or conjunctive). The present study focuses on a well-known sonnet of Fazel Nazari based on the criteria of Halliday and Hassan’s theory in both vertical and horizontal domains. The results show that Fazel Nazari’s sonnet has a high capacity in terms of the elements of grammatical and lexical coherence, and all the words in its verses are chained together. In terms of logical coherence, all the verses pay attention to the techniques of coherence according to Holliday and Hassan theory. Also, most of the verses represent more than one of the coherence criteria. According to Halliday and Hassan's theory in connection with the sonnet in question, one of the reasons for paying attention to Fazel Nazari's poetry in the last decade can be the prominence of the elements of this theory in his poetry.

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