Sometimes words act as expert magicians. When they hold an ordinary picture in front of your eyes and make you see a wholly different image. This is eccentric, but you fail to accuse the words of lying. They are all the same as you knew them before. So, where is the difference? What does it emanate from? Perhaps the writer’s will has changed!

Limitation does not mean stop necessarily. When you can not take the main way, you may try the sideway. In case the writers find it impossible or ineffective to talk directly, they use some magical words. This enchantment is cast by the hidden tongue of literature and those words are the symbols. Although they form on some general agreement, symbols are not bare of emotion. In fact each of them enjoys the same feeling of the indirect meaning it represents. Symbols are interpreted in straight accordance with the place and time of their application. Moreover, a distinct meaning can be represented by different symbols; and this is the writer who selects one which suits the set of other words. So congruence can not be sacrificed in a symbolic text, and this confirms the importance of beauty in literature.

Humane messages are inherently free; however human would be imprisoned. In a tight atmosphere, words find their way out to the mind. They have the power of traveling in history. So they have experienced different meanings. They are capable of changing their face and playing the other roles. This way, there is no ceaseless obstacle against feelings as long as symbols reflect them. 
     

Mehrdad Shahabi
Editor of the English Section
12/26/2009