The theory of conceptual metaphor is the product of those cognitive approaches that have become popular in language and literature since the 1980s and have given metaphor a different nature and function; on this basis, metaphor is not a literary device, but an important process in the cognitive system and human thinking. Therefore, metaphors are directly related to the poet's thought and knowledge. In this study, the poems of Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani are examined from a cognitive perspective to determine how the conceptual metaphors he used in his poems reflect and convey his knowledge, experiences, and views to the audience. The statistical population of this study is the second millennium poem collection Ahoo Koohi, the work of this poet, and its method is descriptive-analytical and based on the theories of Lakoff, Johnson, and Kovesch. In this way, structural and ontological conceptual metaphors from this poetic collection have been extracted, classified, and their relationship with the poet's fields of knowledge has been analyzed. The most important areas of knowledge obtained include astronomy, mysticism, philosophy, mythology, religion, sports, war, banquets, history, literature (poetry, writing, linguistics and literary history), music, psychology, cooking, medicine and the poet's lived experience, of which the most metaphors are related to the areas of the poet's daily experience in nature and society; that is, about 25% and his literary knowledge; that is, 17%. After that, religious and Quranic knowledge with 9%, psychology with 8% and philosophy with 6% have the highest frequency. Among the metaphors, the ontological type also constitutes 80% and the structural type 20%, of which the ontological and especially anthropomorphic metaphor, with a frequency of 37.32%, has the highest frequency in the high poetry collection, and this indicates the poet's attention to the image of the details of the universe and also the human-like approach to nature and the