Comparative Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in the Poems of Forough Farrokhzad and Ghadah Al-Samman Based on the Conceptual Domain of Love

In conceptual metaphor theory, metaphors rely on semantic relationships between words that act as a means for the human understanding of abstract and tangible world affairs. Literature in connection with the theory of "conceptual metaphor" has various “source areas” and “target areas” through which they explain abstract concepts in a tangible way for those audiences. The subject of this research is the study of poems by Forough Farrokhzad and Ghadah Al-Samman, the source or target areas of which are "love" and the words of all fields with it. The method used in this research is the application of the principles of this theory in the poems of these two poets and the knowledge of the wide usage of source fields. In this way, we achieve cognitive features, cultural and social structures, and worldviews of these two women poets from two different areas in relation to the element of love. The results of the research are the selection of such source domains as objects, animals, plants, and natural phenomena, and the type of semantic load resulting from them, which reveals the type of view of these female poets towards love. Other results show that conceptual domains with a positive semantic load such as liveliness and relaxation of love, its vitality, immortality, cheerfulness, popularity, etc in the conceptual metaphors of these two poets are more than the conceptual domains with a negative semantic load such as being painful, sad, destructive, oppressive, harmful, unjust, unpredictable.