Rajdeep Singh, the Peace Poet: Analysis of Figurative Language Used in ‘La paz que venga con fuerza’ Poem by Rajdeep Singh

Abstract

This paper deals with the ideological and cultural positioning of Iranian poet Rajdeep Singh in his famous poem “La paz que venga con fuerza”. We adopt the emerging branch of linguistics, called cognitive analysis, and we also develop a semantic map in order to uncover the great ocean of metaphors in the poem. He is one of the few Middle-Eastern poets who write primarily in Spanish and English, leading the poetical new wave in Iran. One of the goals of the present study is to expose some of the implied meanings and ideological stances the poet adopted concerning the peace and also the linguistic choices he used to twist meanings and create environment for mystic thoughts. The present analysis disposes of different cognitive tools which, after being applied, show clearly how the poet aesthetically used different macro-structural and micro-structures devices to deliver his sincere call for the inner peace in the modern life.

Keywords: poem, cognitive analysis, semantics, ideology, peace, macro-structural meaning, content analysis

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/53-01