A Study of the Rhetorical Effect of Reflecting Greco-Roman Mythological Characters in Afghanistan's Contemporary Poetry

Myth is the poetic expression of great landscapes of nature and mysterious directors of natural and supernatural phenomena, which justifies the origin of human emotions with poetic vision and has rhetorical value with imaginative action. For this reason, myth, with its intertextual nature, has always been reproduced in literary works and has played a prominent role in the semantic, rhetorical, and aesthetic development of literary works. From the distant past until now, Persian language poets have paid attention to all kinds of myths, including Greco-Roman mythology, and have benefited from the diverse functions of these myths in the application of various concepts. Afghanistan's contemporary poets have reflected different concepts and benefited from the capacity of these myths, considering the reproduction of Greco-Roman mythology. Therefore, the current research, using a descriptive-analytical method, based on the intertextuality theory of Gérard Genette, examines the rhetorical effect of Greco-Roman mythology reflection in Afghanistan's contemporary poetry. The results of this research show that Afghanistan's poets have often reflected Greco-Roman mythology in the form of implied intertextuality. These poets have re-created myths to reflect social, romantic, mystical, didactical, resistance, and ideological concepts, as model, idealistic, and charismatic characters, in declarative and imperative sentences.