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Shokr-Allah Pour-Alkhas, Leila Azarnivar, Ahmad Reza Kiani, Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
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Death is the most definite end that can happen at any moment and at any point in life, a horrible truth that humans respond to with horror of death. Many psychotherapists, including Yalom, consider it to be the main source of anxiety, which greatly affects a person’s behavior and psyche. History has shown that poets and writers have thought deeply about death and spoken about it. Saadi, an Iranian thinker who has gained world fame by expressing his moral and philosophical wisdom, in addition to telling anecdotes in his works “Bustan” and “Gulistan” and even in his “Ghazaliat”, has discussed the meaning of death and the anxiety caused by it. Due to the importance of the subject of death, its certainty and inevitability, the current study used Saadi’s works, along with a descriptive-analytical method based on interdisciplinary studies to investigate how Saadi and Yalom help human beings to overcome the horror of death and to live happily or save themselves from its fear despite knowing about death and to face the crises and their mental and psychological problems. The findings show that facing and remembering death not only reduce death anxiety but also make life meaningful, more precious, and valuable. As a result, with such a perception, one can make death enjoyable not only for oneself, but also for others.
Leila Azarnivar, Khodabakhsh Asadollahi, Volume 33, Issue 98 (5-2025)
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One of the fundamental emotions is sadness, which, due to the intensity of its impact on human behavior and psyche, can sometimes cause serious problems. Sadness is significant not only in the field of psychology but also in linguistics, to the extent that Lakoff and Johnson have employed it as a target domain in their theory of conceptual metaphor. Nezami’s poetry reflects human emotions and feelings, expressed in a complex and sometimes ambiguous metaphorical language, and decoding and understanding it can influence the thoughts and daily interactions of the audience. This is because, according to Lakoff and Johnson, a major part of our verbal communication is constituted by such metaphors. In the present study, using a descriptive-analytical method based on a cognitive approach, the conceptualization of the emotion of sadness in Nezami’s Panj Ganj (also called Khamsa or the Five Treasures) has been examined from the perspective of conceptual metaphor to clarify the strategies Nezami employed to depict this abstract concept. The findings indicated that the emotion of sadness imparts a particular character to Nezami’s poems as its frequency is high in some of his works, such as Khosrow and Shirin and Layla and Majnun. For conceptualizing sadness, especially that associated with losing something valuable, such as love or death of loved ones, he draws upon various source domains, including humans, plants, animals, natural disasters, and others.
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