The Aesthetical Criticism of “Nafsat-ol-Masdoor”

“Write so that they would know that the Mill of Time has

evolved spirits Several times, killing it, though it is still alive.”



Ahmad Tahan.PH.D

Abstract

“Nafsat-ol-Masdoor” was written by “Shahab-Eddin Mohammad Khorandezi Nasavi” after the Mongols attacked Iran, killing “Jalal-Eddin Kharazm Shah”. He wrote it in e poetical prose style, describing all his own pains, sufferings and wanderings.

This book bears three separate styles; plain, technical and literary and full of complex and integrated literary multi-layered poetical ornaments. The ornaments and devices used for creating poetry in this book are divided into three groups on the basis of their function and frequency.

Verbal rhetoric; phoneme ornament, puns, versification and parallelism
Spiritual rhetoric: equivocalness, paradox, allusion, proverb, etc.
Expression; imagery, simile, metaphor, irony.



This article in brief offers examples for each of these literary figures of speech.