Hossein Salimi

Poems composed by Hafez can be considered the most complex and enigmatic ones in the Persian language in terms of the use of artistic, rhetorical, and semantic capacities and functions of language. In this regard, Hafez goes to the point that it would be impossible to comprehend the intellectual world of his speech without reflection and hesitation. Hence, he has intelligently, fluently, and consciously used all the subtleties and capacities of the language to present his thoughts and draw his worldview taking advantage of them all with remarkable dexterity. It is because of the use of these clever linguistic tricks that his poetry has always been the subject of literary studies by scholars from different perspectives. On the other hand, since one of the most important stylistic and artistic features of his poems is the amazing use of amphibology and its different types, especially proportional amphibology, many researchers and poets have tried to examine the different layers of meanings and linguistic mystery of his art by extracting evidence of amphibologies and its various categories in his poetry in order to reveal the wonders of prismatic relations of words in his poetry. The present study has used the methods of description and analysis to examine the idea of new proportional amphibologies in the poetry of Hafez. These proportional amphibologies have not been considered in previous research and studies of the poetry of Hafez.