Deconstructing Language and its Fantasy Implications in

8 / Research in Arabic Language and Literature: Foreign Languages Faculty Research Biannual
Journal (Autumn Winter 2012-2013) Issue 7
Deconstructing Language and its Fantasy Implications in
Mehdi Akhavan Sales and Saadi Youssef s poetry
(A Comparative Analysis)
Ali Salimi *
Reza Kiany **
Abstract
The five senses play a significant role in the formation of the rhetorical images in
the poetry and give it artistic dimensions and contribute to the deepening of vision
which the poet seeks to transfer. The senses consensus allows the poet to convey his
feelings from its usual form to strange and deviated level. This means that the five
senses help the writer make figurative effects and images which are different from the
original meanings and concepts of the five senses. From this standpoint, in this study
we are trying to investigate the use of figurative language by the Iranian poet Mehdi
Akhavan Sales and the Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef as a structural tool in the construction
of their poetic worlds. They try to manipulate the senses and transfer from one sense to
another. The questions addressed in this study are summarized as follows:
1) How have the two poets used Correspondence technique (figurative language) in
their poetry?
2) To what extent do the five senses help the poets realize metaphorical meaning
within the experience of these two poets?
The results indicate that deviating from the standard language and deconstructing
language helps the two poets realize their fantasy meanings. In this way, the
expressions miss their usual, logical meanings and deviate from their usual style.
Key words: Semantic deviation, Correspondance, Converted images, Mehdi
Akhavan Sales, Saadi Youssef