Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 1، Apeil 2025 ، issue Number 107

Cognitive analysis of the conceptual metaphor of love in Ahmad Azizi's poems

Mohsen Mohsenatbar , Firooz Fazeli (Author in Charge), Reza Cheraghi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Based on the cognitive approach of language, human sensory and physical experiences are the basis for understanding abstract concepts. In cognitive linguistics, metaphor plays an important role in human cognitive system; In such a way that many of the most basic concepts in the conceptual system are understood through metaphorical concepts. Love is one of the abstract and emotional concepts for which it seems necessary to use more concrete and objective concepts. Using the theory of conceptual metaphor, this research examines the evidence that Ahmad Azizi has conceptualized the concrete and objective spheres and material over the abstract sphere of love in his poems.

METHODOLOGY: The present research is a theoretical study conducted in the style of library research. The scope and community of study is the Masnavis and the collection of Ghazliats of Ahmad Azizi, and the samples from the total of 131 verses with a metaphorical structure have been selected as examples. This research analyzes the conceptual metaphor of love in Ahmad Azizi"s poems using a descriptive-analytical method and a cognitive approach.

FINDINGS: Ahmad Azizi used ontological metaphors and various materials to conceptualize love in order to focus on various aspects and functions of love. The result of the text expressing the dominance of three Extended metaphors "Love is living, "Love is material/body", "Love is place" and its organization on a range of micro-metaphors with substance and material on the axis of this Extended metaphors. Based on existing correspondences, these micro-metaphors describe some of the most important concepts related to love, such as leadership, power, greatness, infinity, ennoblement, illumination, sanctity, valuing, excitement, destruction, and connection Conceptualiz. Also, the Image schemas of vitality, motion/path, object, light, and container have been used to connect the origin and destination areas of the metaphor.

CONCLUSION: The examination of Extended metaphors of love and micro-metaphors related to it indicates that 26 micro-metaphors related to the pattern of animism, 28 cases of physical metaphors and 20 cases of spatial metaphors were used out of a total of 74 metaphor groups. Also, examining the positive and negative functions of micrometaphors and their frequency shows that the poet"s view of the intuitive experience of love is often pleasant and positive.

Keyword
cognitive linguistics , conceptual metaphor , Love , poems

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