The Concept of Parallelism in the Lyrical Poems of Besarani (1641- 1702)

The following study is about “The Concept of Parallelism in the Lyrical Poems of Besarani (1641- 1702)”, who wrote his lyrics in the Kurdish dialect Gorani (Hawrami). Parallelism (GK alongside one another) - consists of phrases or sentences of similar construction and meaning placed side by side, balancing each other. (Cuddon 1979: 481) Parallelism alongside two other concepts; foregrounding and deviation are the foundations of contemporary stylistics. According to Literary Theorist, Yury Lotman, Parallelism is a binomial wherein one of its members is known through a second one that functions as an analogue in relation to the former. This second member is neither identical to the first nor separate from it. Additionally, a more complex case of parallelism occurs when both parts of the binomial mutually models each other, isolating in each something analogous to the other. The author attempts to show how the contemporary concept of structuralistic stylistics such as parallelism has been expressed through some of Besaranis’ lyrical poems.