Investigation and analysis of love description methods in Samak Ayar

Samak Ayar written by Faramarz Ibn Khodadad is the oldest work in the field of Persian fiction. Although this long folk tale has its drawbacks in terms of the art of storytelling, it is very fascinating and entertaining. Samak is full of signs of social life; But one of the most frequent discourses is love. The story begins with the love of the prince of Aleppo, Khurshid Shah, to Mehpari, the daughter of Faghfor China, and almost all of its events revolve around this love. The subject of this article is to study and analyze the methods and techniques of describing love, lover and lover in this story. The authors of the article want to reflect on the author's perception of love and its tenderness and find out which rhetorical tools he used to reveal the characteristics of love and the lover and the scenes of meeting and merging lovers.The data of this research were obtained by library method and after categorization, were analyzed and described using qualitative method. The results of the research show that in Samak Ayar, love is basically "physical", "aristocratic" and "patriarchal" and is the center of the circle of good and bad actions of the characters in the story. This love is so powerful that it can draw the lover to China in search of the beloved and to reach the carpenter from Aleppo. The author's rhetorical tools to visualize these situations have been similes, metaphors, ironies, and especially artistic descriptions.