Semiotic analysis of binary oppositions in Nimai Hossein Monzavi's poems

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1 EducationStudied Persian language and literature, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan branch

2 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Dahaghan Branch

10.29252/kavosh.2022.18316.3235

Abstract

Hussein Monzavi is one of the prominent contemporary poets best known for his creativity in prose and original illustrations in lyric poems. His Nimai poems are very valuable, but they have not been studied independently. Due to the greater freedom of the poet in this type of poetry as well as the thematic unity and structural coherence of his works, it reflects the basic ideas and concepts of Monzavi's romantic poetry more than his lyric poems. This research is conducted to get acquainted with the macro and fundamental implications of Monzavi’s Nimai poetry and to understand the structural relations of the signs in that poetry. For this purpose, the main conflicts and their networks are examined in the corresponding texts. The research method is descriptive-analytical with library and phishing tools. The Levi-Strauss model for the analysis of binary oppositions and the principles of structural semiotics are used in the analysis of binary text networks. Literary structuralism is a method of analysis that reached its peak in the 1960s and whose roots should be found in structuralist linguistics. Binary oppositions are the basis of structuralist thinking. According to the findings of this study, the most important macro-central opposition of the text is that of the original and the true with the false and similar. Also, the main structure of the text is based on the opposition of the two principles of "contrast and differentiation" and "evolution and unity".

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