The metaphor of death in Ahmadreza Ahmadi's poetry from the perspective of cognitive linguistics

Conceptual metaphor is one of the most important perspectives of modern linguistics, which plays a special and new role in the analysis of text and communicative language. Death is a slippery and incomprehensible concept and is always understood through objective and tangible objects. In the theory of conceptual metaphor, which is formed based on the thinking of cognitive linguists, death is expressed with mappings such as "death is power", "death is travel", "death is human". Therefore, with the aim of examining the concept of death in the poetry of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, a contemporary poet, we first discussed the general concepts of metaphor, then defined and classified conceptual metaphor from the perspective of cognitive linguists. The current study examines the link between metaphor and the intellectual foundation of the poet and how Ahmadi was able to express his ideology and attitude about death through metaphor. The evidence shows that the concept of death in Ahmadi's poetry, due to the use of conceptual metaphor, is mixed with his pure poetic feelings and often exceeds conventional metaphorical concepts. Death is often considered as an entity or a body that accompanies the poet, and with such mappings as "death is a present phenomenon", "death is human" it indicates Ahmadi's death thinking and the frequency of the concept of death in his poetry. According to the history of the studied collections, the conceptual metaphor of death gradually becomes more prominent in the poet's thought.