The Study of Language and Epic Tone in AnVari's Odes

Tone is the speaker's attitude and sense as well as the most substantial factor in both creating space and influencing the audience in poetry, and recognizing as well as realizing language and its tone. The epic language and tone are the result of lexicon selection, combinations, imagery, figures of speech, and the weight choice proper to the type of epic. This study aims to investigate the influential factors on making epic language and tone in Anvari poems, which has been conducted using descriptive analytical method and library-based method. Anvari devotes tone and language to his poems by applying internal and external music, lexicons selection and epic combinations, the use of congruous figures such as overstatement, exaggeration, simile and numerous allusions to the heroes’ names and Iranian epic and mythological characters. The results of studies indicate that the poet has an epicthinking mind and it is reflected in the imaginary words and phrases applied in his poems and this kind of mentality, language and imagination with the fifth and sixth century society and beliefs and thought of whom govern the culture and literature of that period are connected and, of course, impacted by it.