“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

Analyzing Rumi's mystical view of the parrot symbol in Shams's sonnets

Document Type : Original Article

Author
ali rastgoo
Bachelor student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Payam Noor University, Oz Center, Fars, Iran.
Abstract
A symbol and code is a type of expression that contains an intangible concept and truth and allows the speaker to get out of the limitations of sensory language. Rumi, who is a mystical poet, uses symbols to express his mystical ideas. This article examines the purpose of Rumi's parrot symbolism in Shams's sonnets and tries to show his fascinating and mysterious interpretations of this symbol. More than 80 verses are the frequency of use of parrot in Shams's sonnets. From their symbolism, important concepts such as the flight of the soul to the upper world, expansion and contraction, mystical zeal, silence, the association of angels, the messianic soul, happiness and its opposite relationship with the raven and the owl are extracted. This article tries to explain the poet's thought pattern regarding the parrot in Shams's sonnets with the descriptive-analytical method and by examining the mentioned concepts.
Keywords
Shams’s sonnets
Symbol
Parrot
Mysticism
Subjects
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