Iranian Persian Language and Literature Promotion Society Research on Mystical Literature HTTPS://JP 12 1 2018 05 22 The Study of Conceptual metaphor "Erfan is Tavern" in Hafez's Divan The Study of Conceptual metaphor "Erfan is Tavern" in Hafez's Divan 47 72 22568 10.22108/jpll.2018.101117.1015 FA Jahandoost Sabzalipour Associate Professor of Persian language and Literature, Islamic Azad University of Rasht, Iran Soheila Vaziri M.A. , Persian Literature, Islamic Azad University of Rasht, Iran. Journal Article 2016 12 17 Today, cognitive linguistics has come to the conclusion that humankind cannot think without conceptual metaphors. If conceptual metaphor can be found, it is possible to get into the minds of the linguists and become more familiar with their thoughts. The attention to human thinking has proven that man needs some examples to express spiritual and physical matters to material things and some examples so that he can refer to them. In the Persian literature that has been the reporter for the mystical episodes of the great mystics, material issues have been used to refer to the mystical and spiritual states that are not of matter, has used material affairs to expressing beyond physics issues. One of these domains is Tavern (Kharabat). In Persian literature, Mysticism has been compared with Tavern more than anything else. Without conceptual metaphor, the metaphor "Erfan is Tavern" understanding the beyond physics concepts of mysticism will not be easy. This article has tried to show how this metaphor is shaped. All of Poetic examples in this research are from Hafez Shirazi's Divan. The results of the research showed that by removing this metaphor from Persian poetry, especially in Iraqi style poetry, mystical texts will be very unlucky and poor Today, cognitive linguistics has come to the conclusion that humankind cannot think without conceptual metaphors. If conceptual metaphor can be found, it is possible to get into the minds of the linguists and become more familiar with their thoughts. The attention to human thinking has proven that man needs some examples to express spiritual and physical matters to material things and some examples so that he can refer to them. In the Persian literature that has been the reporter for the mystical episodes of the great mystics, material issues have been used to refer to the mystical and spiritual states that are not of matter, has used material affairs to expressing beyond physics issues. One of these domains is Tavern (Kharabat). In Persian literature, Mysticism has been compared with Tavern more than anything else. Without conceptual metaphor, the metaphor "Erfan is Tavern" understanding the beyond physics concepts of mysticism will not be easy. This article has tried to show how this metaphor is shaped. All of Poetic examples in this research are from Hafez Shirazi's Divan. The results of the research showed that by removing this metaphor from Persian poetry, especially in Iraqi style poetry, mystical texts will be very unlucky and poor https://jpll.ui.ac.ir/article_22568_409eb53d93154a762aea0c628fb05527.pdf