Examples of Syntactic Deviation in the Poems of Naser Khosrow

Deviation from collocation rules and disordered syntactic structure in normal and standard language is the common method used by all poets in their poetic language. Syntactic deviation in classical Persian poetry is generally applied to maintain the musical system of poem –that is, observing the metre and the rhyme of the peoms-and, thus, this process is considered as a integral part of “poetics”. Nāser Khosrow is one of the poets who has used this technique in order to distinguish his poetic diction; his poetical works are replete with instances of this kind of deviation. Hence, it seems that he has tried to achieve his unique stylistic distinction in his poems through syntactic deviation. In an attempt to explore syntactic deviation in the poems of Naser Khosrow, the present study compared his poems with those of three contemporary poets, namely, Onsori, Farrokhi and Manoochehri. The results indicated that, among 14 instances of syntactic deviation in Naser Khosrow’s poems, as compared to those of the other three poets, 7 cases were considered salient deviations.