The comparison of sunrise and sunset images ‎in “Shah-nameh” and “Khosro and shirin”‎

Abstract

In the process of changing the word from normal level ‎info literal and artistic level, poetic images or imaginary ‎visions play an undeniable role.‎ Any poet’s imagination take roots in his or his or her ‎personality and outside or inside way of living which appear ‎consciously or unconsciously in his or her poems.‎ On of the most outstanding backgrounds or basis of ‎using images or visions is the description of the nature. In ‎using various and colorful descriptions of the nature in ‎Persian literature, the sceneries of sunrise and sunset have got ‎a luminous shinning. ‎ The main goal of the present thesis is to survey the ‎images of sunrise and sunset in two of- the outstanding works ‎of the Persian literature i.e. “Shahnameh” and “Khosro and ‎Shirin”. Ferdosi and Nezami have created various and ‎colorful images of describing coming morning and nights that ‎thinking about them makes the reader familiar with two ‎outstanding poets and their poems literal value. ‎ In this survey, images have been researched from ‎different aspects the way of using colors, aristocracy and ‎military elements and also elements taken by nature.‎

Keywords

• shahnameh
• khosro and shirin
• image
• sunrise
• sunset