Visual Design in Children’s Ritual Poems (Case Study: Razavi’s Children’s Poems)

Bahramzadeh, Forouzan; Elhami, Sharare; Borzouyi, Reza

doi:10.22034/farzv.2023.377215.1834

Visual Design in Children’s Ritual Poems (Case Study: Razavi’s Children’s Poems)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Forouzan Bahramzadeh ¹

Sharare Elhami ²

Reza Borzouyi ³

¹ PhD student Department of Persian language and literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran (corresponding author)

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/farzv.2023.377215.1834

Abstract

The foundations of cognitive semantics are based on conventional conceptual construction. Semantic constructions, like other semantic fields, reflect abstract concepts that a person has shaped based on his experiences. One of the semantic approaches is visual pictorial design. In this way, human experiences from the surrounding world create conceptual constructions in his mind that can be transferred on the level of language; therefore, tangible and embodied experiences within the conceptual system lead to the production of image schemas. The present article aims to examine some conceptual processes and constructions in cognitive semantics in the form of visual schemas, and for this purpose, the author has chosen 40 pieces of Razavi children’s poems to show that in Iranian religious children’s literature, how conceptual constructions help to understand abstract fields in children’s poetry. The findings of the research show that among the 40 children’s songs of Razavi, the majority of visual design are of movement type, and the reason for that can also be found in the theme of the poems; because concepts such as pilgrimage and attaining spiritual status require movement and activity. In addition, volume design also has a significant presence in children’s religious poems; the presence of this scheme is in line with the expression of achieving abstract concepts such as kindness, peace and liberation in the place of the Holy Shrine of the Imams (as). After the motion and volume plot, the visual plot of power occupies the third place in Razavi’s children’s poems. This is also due to the educational approach of Imams (as) who have tried to remove the obstacles to a desirable and ideal world.

Keywords

Ritual Poem

Razavi&‌rsquo

s Children&‌rsquo

s Poems

Semantic Theory

Visual Design

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