A Study on Metafunctions of Language in Ahmed Shamloo and Sohrab Sepehri's Elegy

Halliday's SFG is one of the theories that is effective in the analysis of literary texts. In this theory,the understanding of language,language uses is formed in context of situation,social context. From Halliday's point of view,context of situation is a sign that has three components,and each component corresponds to one of the triple metafunctions of language. In comparative study of literary texts,analysing of each of these metafunctions cause to understand the meaning of the text,the attitude of the speaker of the text about the subject. In this article,based on this theory,the elegies written by two contemporary poets,Sohrab Sepehri,Ahmed Shamloo,in the mourning for Forough Farrokhzad are studied. By studying transitional structure,logical – semantic structure,taxis structure,modal structure,theme – rheme structure,and information structure as well as non-structural relations cause to understad the linguistic,textual differences,similarities of these two texts. The research method is qualitative,quantitative. This study shows tht Shamloo tends to represent the outer world in his elegies,Sepehri tends to represent the inner world. Shamloo considers his audience,i.e. Forough Farrokhzad,present,therefore uses the present tense,while Sepehri only uses the past tense considering the audience absent.