Deictic and Epistemic Sub-worlds in a Paul Werthian Cognitive Poetics Theory and Gadamerian Historicity of Understanding in Reading Ali Babachahi’s “Farness and …”

The conceptual levels analysed within Text World Theory are discourse-world, text-world, and sub-world. The sub-world enables the critic to analyse the epistemological aspects of the text by focusing on deictic phrases, nouns, and adverbs. This descriptive-analytical research discusses the impact of deictic worlds and the system  of metaphors in recognising the epistemic world in Ali Babachahi’s “Farness and …” The present article aims to answer these questions: Considering the chronological course of the poem’s deictic world, how we can unveil the poet’s epistemic world, and how does the systematic network of cognitive metaphors reveal the poet’s epistemological system? The results show that the poetic narrative expresses concern about the past which is relieved by the poet’s predictions and return to traditions.