A Communicative Analysis of the Roles of Saba Wind in Hafez’ Poetry---

Analyzing the communicative roles of Saba Wind, this paper intends to investigate the quality and degree of role-taking of the concept of Saba Wind. Many natural elements are present in Hafez’ poetry and one of them is Saba Wind. In order to be easier to follow, the results of the research will be presented through diagrams, models, and tables. Performing some case studies on Hafez’ poems and comparing and contrasting these cases with each other resulted in a tree diagram which shows that Saba Wind plays six major roles consisting of eight subcategories. Saba Wind enjoys an outstanding position which, if viewed from the viewpoint of communication sciences, obviously demonstrates the components and concepts of a communication process. Saba Wind has a great many communicative roles in Hafez’ poetry; for instance it has the role of an informed source; i.e., as a sender it gives information; it conveys the message; as a channel, it transmits concepts and messages; it sometimes plays the role of a harbinger; it is the receiver of the message; it shapes the meaning in the mind of the receiver; in a nutshell, Saba Wind has a number of various communicative roles. - - - ( ) . . . - . - - - - - - . - - - - - -