The Stylistic Analysis of Akhavan Sales Poetry (Then After Thunder); A Functional Approach

Text linguistics is a functional approach emphasizing the communicative role of language which considers the main role of language to make communication and transfer meaning among the language actors. From this aspect, language obtains a social direction and its chief role is analyzed in social context. Functional Linguistics assigns three metafunctions for language every one of which views language uniquely and offers different cutting of world. experimental metafunction considers language as a representing tool of internal and external worlds of humans. Interpersonal metafunction considers language a tool for mutual action among humans and finally textual metafunction puts language in relation to a situational context and prepares the necessary foundations for two other metafunction; therefore, it forms the textness of text along with the coherence tool. In this essay, it is tried to read one of Akhavan poems from Textual Metafunction Perspective and while reviewing the arrangement of elements in text, it is tried to show how the poet has stylistically used this metafunction in representing his mind and his internal work’s theme.