Thematic Analysis of One of the Rumi’s Poem On the View of Halliday’s Functionalism

This paper tries to analyze one of the poems of Rumi in Mathnavi(Masnavi)book3, Nicholson s version- with the title of description some God s friends who are content with the (Divine) ordainment and do not pray and beseech (God) to change this decree on the view of Halliday s functionalism. There are a lot of studies about Mowlana s poems in different points of view. In this study we try to show Rumi s thought and attitude by analyzing the poem on the view of thematic structure of Halliday Functionalism

Keywords:

Rumi s poems , Halliday s Functional Grammar , Mathnavi , Thematic structure , Given- New information