Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Elika Ashjaee ¹
• Habibollah Abbasi ²

¹ Department of Persian Language and Literature, Roudhen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen, Iran

² Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Rupert Spira, a British and English-speaking poet and mystic, who is a master of the art of pottery and is capable of it, tries to share his understanding of the concept of man with his audience in his poetry and according to the experience of pottery. His understanding of the concept of man, which he considers to be an infinite being, unconsciously coincided with the approach of conceptual metaphor in his poetry and created a conflict-like design. In his poetry, man is recognized as the origin of things. In this research, it is stated by analytical-descriptive method that every cognitive object corresponding to the field of human abstract purpose shows a face of human nature. The frequent presence of the concept of a bowl, which is a branch of the poet's art of pottery, shows the poet's attention to the concept of volume in human knowledge. Although the poet considers man as an infinite being, he suffers from cognitive duality and presents an objective and limited concept of man in his poems; For this reason, we realize that in the end we are faced with the concept of order and boundaries.

Keywords

• Human concept
• conceptual metaphor
• mental schema
• Rupert Spira
• poetry
• pottery
• objects