Mahmoud Fotoohi,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (5-2004)
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between poetic imagery, attitude, and affection, and presents three types of relationship between poet's mind and the object: Identity, equality penetration.
In the identity state', I the post' associates and sympathizes with the object (I.e., subject) and turns around it. In the equality state, 'I' synthesizes his feelings with the object, offering life, sense, and character to it. Finally, in the penetration, 'I' and the object melt into each other. These three states reveal the relative degrees of the relationship between the poet's essence and objects. Having done the abore, the author proceeds to attitude and considers it us man's hidden structure of the mind and character.
The great artists' works are affected by a dominant plot which creeps into the images, forms, content, and concepts of his works. This overriding idea is called attitude. The poet enjoying a creative personal attitude is marked as the one whose dominant plot over shadows his images and language. We may consider all those elements as clusters of the same macro metaphor, around which all structures and peripheral images turn. The discovery of this metaphor is regarded as the key to the artist's mind as well as his character.
