Abstract

Abstract From the traditional perspective, metaphor would be regarded as a literary and ornamental device. Hence, the poets would resort merely to metaphor for the purpose of creativity. Many famous Persian poets such as Attar, Moulana, Sa’adi, and Hafiz focused on mystical literature. An important question is that weather the views of these poets regard to using conceptual metaphors differ or not. In this research, we respond to this question about the two famous books of Sa’adi and Hafiz, by using statistics and data mining techniques. For this purpose, the poems of ‘Divan of Hafiz and Bustan of Sa'adi’, two famous Persian poets, are studied. At first, the conceptual metaphors of these books are separately investigated by using data visualization technique. Then, the conceptual metaphors given in these books are compared by applying data visualization technique and Chi-square test. The results showed that these books are significantly different from each other in view of applied conceptual metaphors.

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