Poetic Function of Pronouns in Masnavi-E-Manavi Sina Bashiri*

Mowlavi's Masnavi-e-Manavi, aside from being the most prominent mystical texts of Persian literature has a great poetic value. One of the most poetic aspects of the language in Masnavi is the pronouns and their functions in aesthetic and semantic features of this valuable collection of poems. In this article, the concepts of defamiliarization and deviation from the norm are described based on the views of
Russian formalists on the poetic function of language; then the semantic, stylistic, syntactic and lexical deviations and extraregularity related to pronouns in the poetic evidences of Masnavi-e- Manavi and their relationships with the poet's ideas are investigated.
The results show that the pronouns have a major role in the poetic and imaginative aspects of Masnavi-e-Manavi, and besides their aesthetic role, they make a great contribution to convey meaning and concepts.